Sightings - Sunday 9th October 2016

Great White Egret - 2 over Christchurch Harbour, 1 Middlebere Channel
Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Common Crane - 2 over Weymouth Rugby Ground
Merlin - 2 Durlston CP
Stone Curlew - 1 Stanpit Marsh
LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 1 still in Lytchett Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Bay (Turlin Channel), 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor
Sanderling - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Spotted Redshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Short-eared Owl - 1 Rodden Hive, 1 Kimmeridge, 1 Ferrybridge, 2 Durlston CP
Wryneck - 1 Lodmoor
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 trapped & ringed  Durlston CP, 1 Portland Craft Centre
Bearded Tit - 1 trapped & ringed Portland Bird Observatory
Yellow-browed Warbler - 5 Portland Craft Centre, 1 Lytchett Bay,
    1 Wakeham Portland, 1 Chard Junction, 1 The Grove Portland,
    1 Weymouth Golf Course, 1 trapped & ringed  Durlston CP,
    1 Tesco CP Dorchester, 1 trapped & ringed Portland Bird Observatory,
    1 The Hump Portland, 1 Stanpit, 1 Wick, 2 St Aldhelm's Head
Subalpine Warbler - 1 briefly near Easton Portland
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 juvenile over Durlston CP, 1 juvenile still at Lodmoor
Ring Ouzel - 15 near Durdle Door, 8 Durlston CP,
    3 Coomefield Quarry Portland, 1 Wallsend  Portland
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 trapped & ringed Portland Bird Observatory

Yesterday : a Wryneck at Hengistbury Head

Oystercatcher at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy
Curlew Sandpiper at Lodmoor © Derek Fowler

Brent Goose at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy