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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

♂ Scaup still today & brief Arctic Tern. Reasonable no.s of duck but no Pochard! Singles of Grey Plover, Dunlin, Redshank & Common Sandpiper & few Lapwing the only waders. Lots of Chiffchaff & a few of both ‘crests’ but no passerines of note. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Canada Goose Utd have the ball but Coot City are defending well, lots of fowls in the game but still 0-0 as it stands! The Mute Swan crowd are not impressed! ⚽️ 😁

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My attempt at a Jackson Pollock… Great Black-Backed Gull poo on concrete, with brush. 😁

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sorry, my bad it was only 224 Cattle Egrets! 😬

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yeah not actually all present during the WeBS count but @joestockwell.bsky.social had them leave the roost this morning in several flocks from first light to gone 8am. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It was @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count day on the Fleet today. Gutted that the 30+ Greylags didn’t appear in my Rodden to Shipmoor sector. Surely a reserve record. My best was heard only Brambling. In Swannery sector @joestockwell.bsky.social had r-t Hen Harrier, ♂ Scaup, 5 Great & 234 Cattle Egrets.

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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Eclipse Drake Scaup present for 2nd day, slightly hesitant on its purity yesterday as a duck we'reseeing less and less and less of each year let alone in this plumage! @swannerysteve.bsky.social

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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nice start to the day with the autumn's first Jack Snipe @swannerysteve.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yellow-browed Warbler (heard only) along old Abbotsbury/Portesham Railway line, this afternoon. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Siberian Chiffchaff from the first net round at the Swannery this morning @swannerysteve.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

6 Great Egrets just dropped in, still a bit of a novelty at the Swannery compared to abundant Little & Cattle. No sign of the Glossy Ibis though. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #abbotsbury

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Glossy Ibis (1cy) dropped into the Swannery Grounds at around 4.30 this afternoon. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #Abbotsbury

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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Presumed Great Black-backed X Herring just now at the Swannery, any opinion greatly recieved, these things are beyond me!

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not unexpectedly… No Grey Phalaropes in the Swannery Embayment so far this morning @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Both still present 2pm when one appeared to fly off. One still present to 4.30 at least. Osprey also.

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Grey Phalarope on the algae mats in the eastern Swannery Embayment this morning. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That begs the question… which part of the UK was accidentally bombed by the RAF? 😬🤔

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hemp probably if he’s a relative of the Bridport lot 😁

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A little online research would suggest that the parish church would seem to be the only large building present in 1920, that might be enticing to a passing Wallcreeper. Any Manor House if present appears to have long gone by then. 🤔

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

White Stork low over the Swannery grounds just now. Circled over Chapel Hill then did another low pass. Pretty duff of late. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah just a manky Mallard. Not a hybrid as such just a domestic breed cross. Head suggests Call Duck as one parent 👍🏻

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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nice to get the Autumn Caspian Gull tally started this afternoon with this absolute monster 1cy bird, the first of many hopefully! @swannerysteve.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think a lot of people having been losing Ferruginous Ducks… that’s the problem! 😬😁

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Sandpiper in your pic is a Green Sandpiper Dan. 🙂

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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sublime views of today's juv Black Tern at the Swannery, reappearing at 4:30 It showed superbly well around the tern rails, although just about annual lately they never show this well @swannerysteve.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Black Tern briefly over the Swannery Embayment earlier picked up by @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Fresh juvenile Willow Warbler? Far brighter yellow than adults & have a repeating hu-itt call similar to Chiffchaff but with emphasis on first syllable not second.

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

71 recorded on the mudflat at Ferrybridge during last Sunday’s @webs-gsmp.bsky.social plus more still in the colony.

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The one at the top of Abbotsbury Hill Amy, would also be a contender I think 😊

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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Caspian Tern just flown over the Swannery grounds, quite purposefully north @swannerysteve.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I can’t recall seeing the Grey-headed Gull when I took the pic 😂

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Honey-buzzard north over the Swannery around 12.30pm. Found by Kev Butler confirmed by @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

c200 in a raft off Abbotsbury Beach last night 🙂

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A few pairs at Blackdown (Hardy’s Monument) still.

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

No further sign of the Roseate Terns. 8 Whimbrel again, 5 Dunlin, a Bar-tailed Godwit & a Ringed Plover the only migrant waders. Nothing else of much note. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Two Roseate Terns on rail by tern island this lunch time. Abbotsbury Swannery. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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