Sightings - Friday 31st August 2012

Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill
Osprey - 2 at Lytchett Bay
Montagu's Harrier - juvenile west past Hengistbury Head, with probably the same bird over Coombe Heath, Arne
Little Ringed Plover - 1 at Lodmoor
Little Stint - 1 at Lodmoor, 1 at Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 5 at Holes Bay, 1 at Lytchett Bay
Skua sp (probably Arctic) - 1 well inland over West Compton
Little Gull - 1 at Stanpit Marsh
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 at West Bexington, 1 at Portland Bill
Black Tern - 1 at Abbotsbury Swannery
Wryneck - 1 at Durlston, 1 at Askerswell, 1 at Tidmoor Rifle Range
White Wagtail - 3 at Portland Bill
Redstart - highest counts today - 30 at Durlston, 20+ at Morden Bog
Whinchat - 12 at West Bexington, 12 at Christchurch Harbour, 5 at Portland Bill, 3 at Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 2 at Lytchett Bay, 2 at Durlston, 2 at White Nothe, 1 at Martinstown
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 at Lytchett Bay, 1 at Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 2 at Lodmoor, 1 at Durlston, 1 at Hengistbury Head, 1 at Rushcombe Bottom
Woodchat Shrike - 1 still near Bridging Camp, the Fleet