Sightings - Saturday 1st October 2016

Red-throated Diver - 1 (possibly 2) past Hengistbury Head
Garganey - 2 Radipole Lake
Spoonbill - 41 Brownsea Island, 27 Christchurch Harbour
Merlin - 2 (m&f) Hartland Moor, 2 Durlston CP
Bar-tailed Godwit - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 4 Ferrybridge, 3 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lytchett Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 5 Brownsea Island
Sanderling - c12 Christchurch Harbour
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 14 Brownsea Island
LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1 still at Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
Great Skua - 1 juvenile on Brownsea Island lagoon
Little Gull - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Tern - 1 past Durlston CP
Wryneck - 1 still at Portland Obs quarry
Firecrest - 5 Hengistbury Head, 1 Durlston CP

Yesterday : 4 Yellow Wagtails and a Hobby at Swineham

Turnstone at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy