Sightings - Thursday 9th April 2015

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Greenland White-fronted Goose - 1 Abbotsbury
Garganey - 2 males Longham Lakes
Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes
Long-tailed Duck - 4 Abbotsbury
Spoonbill - 6 Lytchett Bay
Red Kite - 1 over Lorton Lane (Weymouth), 1 Christchurch Harbour
Black-winged Stilt - 1 still at Abbotsbury on Meadow Pool
Stone Curlew - 1 Portland Bill
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lytchett Fields
Purple Sandpiper - 20 Hengistbury Head
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields
Whimbrel - 11 Chesil Cove, 1 West Bexington
Little Gull - 15 St Aldhelm's Head, 7 Chesil Cove, 2 Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head
Puffin - 1 Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 1 near Studland village
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill, a possible reported from Durlston
Tree Pipit - 1 Stanpit
Yellow Wagtail - 1 over South Haven, 1 Hengistbury Head
Black Redstart - 2 Durlston
Redstart - 2 trapped at Portland Bird Obs, 5 Hengistbury Head, 2 Durlston, 1 Barleycrates/Reap Lane, 1 The Verne (Portland)
Ring Ouzel - 4 Hengistbury Head, 4 The Verne (Portland)
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Barleycrates/Reap Lane
Sedge Warbler - 1 trapped at Portland Bird Obs
Reed Warbler - 1 Lodmoor
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Seacombe
Siberian Chiffchaff - a probable Stanpit Marsh
Pied Flycatcher - 1 West Bexington, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Verne Common (Portland)


Grey Heron at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart




Chiffchaff at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy


Dunlin at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

 
Tufted Duck at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy