Sightings - Thursday 19th April 2012

Pale-bellied Brent - 32 Stanpit Marsh
Red-throated Diver - 1 past West Bexington
Manx Shearwater - 250 Portland Bill, 6 from The Nothe, 2 Durlston CP.
Glossy Ibis - 1 still Radipole Lake
Merlin - 1 Stanpit
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 moulting to summer plumage Brownsea Is.
Purple Sandpiper - 15 Hengistbury sandspit.
Whimbrel - 16 Lodmoor, 15, Hengistbury Hd, 11 Durlston CP, 9 West Bexington, 3 Portland Bill, 2 Poole Hbr.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Is, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great Skua - 6 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill
Glaucous Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 1 (1st/Sum) Little Sea Studland
Common Tern - 5 Lodmoor, 2 Durlston CP, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 1 West Bexington
Arctic Tern - 6 Hengistbury Hd.
Little Tern - 3 off Mudeford Quay
Cuckoo - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Wheatear - 24 Stanpit Marsh, 11 Greenlands Fm, 5 Durlston CP.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill
Whitethroat - 1 Durlston CP.
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP.

female Chaffinch - Ringstead © Jessica Evans

Cetti's Warbler - Lodmoor © Jessica Evans