Hampshire Ornithological Society

Pectoral Sandpiper, Pennington, Hampshire (Sat 18 July). An early start paid off with nice views. @HOSbirding @HantsIWWildlife

Black-crowned Night Heron, Miller’s Pond, Southampton, Hants 10 July. Some excitement yesterday evening when news of its presence belatedly emerged. A few of Hampshire’s keenest went to check it out and we managed a few brief flight views. I went back for some photos this am.

Common Rosefinch, Martin Down, Hampshire 23/05/26 - a great find this morning by SK and showing well until early afternoon with a brief reappearance this evening. The first twitchable Rosefinch in Hampshire. @HOSbirding

Yesterday, I woke to a message from @MarkFra64259515 who had found this cracking adult White-winged Black Tern off Hill Head. It frequented the offshore feeding frenzy with a Black Tern for most of the morning at least. @HOSbirding

Nice to find an adult White Winged Black Tern off Hill Head this morning lingering around in the feeding flock. Might be an ok photo with a bit of editing 😂@HOSbirding @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdGuides

Our first returning Turtle Dove was as captured on one of our trail cameras on the 5th May - so good to see with a sigh of relief! @SaveTurtleDoves @_BTO @HOSbirding

Honey Buzzard-adult male-white morph-New Forest Monday 11/05/26 this individual does tend to arrive earlier than most Honey’s on Forest, nice to get an early bird to settle the nerves for the season ahead, + an adult White-tailed Eagle.

An amazing 579 people attended our recent Members' Day! If you couldn't make it or would like to relive the day, all of the talks are now available to watch online hos.org.uk/welcome-to-the…

A very showy and confiding Hoopoe in Basingstoke, Hampshire yesterday (19/04/26). @HantsIWWildlife @HOSbirding

📢 Saving Hampshire's Swifts ❣️ Catherine Gale from @HampshireSwifts will be telling us all about these amazing birds & what we can do to help them 📅7:30pm Thurs 23 Apr 🧭Alton Assembly Rooms, GU34 1BA ℹ️altonclimatenetwork.org.uk/events/saving-… @GreenHampshire @HOSbirding @FarnhamHerald

American Golden Plover, Hook-with-Warsash LNR, Hampshire (01/04/26). We have been lucky with species in Hampshire for the last two years - I have seen one in both April 2025 & 2026. Although this years bird is more distant & the photo below is heavily cropped. My 6th in Hants.

Our AGM and Members' Day takes place this Saturday, 28 March, at St Swithun's School, Winchester. Join us for a great variety of talks including Roy Dennis on "A Lifetime of Rewilding". Free for members, £10 non-members. No need to pre-book hos.org.uk/welcome-to-the…

Great to see this review of our latest bird report. Copies of this report and previous years are available to purchase or view on our website. Sign up for membership (just £16 a year) to receive the report annually hos.org.uk/welcome-to-the…

A memorable encounter with this Great Grey Shrike over the w/end in the New Forest, watching it hunting Lizards and Beetles amongst the Gorse and then spearing them onto spikes of hawthorn.

We were delighted to help finance a new Sand Martin bank at @HantsIWWildlife Testwood Lakes youtu.be/Hm6NVWXyqhY?si…

Black-necked Grebes at Keyhaven Marsh today feasting on Caddisfly larvae. @HOSbirding @hiwwt @BirdGuides @BBCSpringwatch #grebes

A fine looking drake Ring-necked Duck eventually showed well at Fleet Pond, Hampshire mid afternoon today. @HantsIWWildlife @HOSbirding

Lovely to catch up with @SBO_Jason at Farlington Marshes, where we had a Norwegian colour-ringed Rock Pipit ‘X9Z’. Ringed at More og Romsdal, Norway in August 2020 and travelled 1434 km to overwinter at Farlington. Recorded at Farlington each winter since.

Ferruginous Duck at Brownwich Pond near Titchfield, Hants on Friday afternoon. What a handsome bird! It was with a few tufties and there was also a drake Goosander present. @HOSbirding @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK

I wouldn’t normally post such poor quality photos but a Great Shearwater as, I think, a first confirmed for Hampshire was quite an event today. Nice scope views off of Calshot but sadly too far for anything other than a couple of record shots. @HOSbirding @HantsIWWildlife