Sightings - Sunday 1st September 2013

Red-crested Pochard - 1 male still at Radipole
Balearic Shearwater - 33 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island
Osprey -  2 Middlebere , 2 at Holton Heath, 1 from Swineham Point, 1 over Organford, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Golden Plover - 1 Seacombe
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Stint - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Ferrybridge
Curlew Sandpiper - 5 on Brownsea Island
Spotted Redshank - 8 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 1 off Abbotsbury beach
Black Tern - 1  in Wareham Channel, 1 off Abbotsbury beach, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Cuckoo - 1 Portland Bill
Wryneck -  1 Morden Bog, 1 again in Wick Fields, Hengistbury Head
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Morden Bog
White Wagtail - 10 Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 300+ roosting at Abbotsbury Swannery (68 ringed, which included several Blue-headed types), 50 Radipole
Nightingale - 1 still at Portland Bill
Redstart - 4 Durlston, 2 Morden Bog, 1 near Lodmoor
Whinchat - 5 Christchurch Harbour, 3 Morden Bog, 1 Seacombe, 1 Durlston
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 6 Abbotsbury Gardens
Pied Flycatcher - 4 Portland Bill, 1 Durlston, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Crossbill - 5 Morden Bog

Yesterday : a Bittern was reported at Radipole RSPB

Bearded Tit at Lodmoor © Kay & Alan Mantripp

Yellow Wagtail at Abbotsbury Swannery yesterday © Luke Phillips