Sightings - Monday 17th April 2017

Garganey - 1 drake at Overcombe Pool (Lodmoor RSPB)
Cattle Egret - 10 Radipole Lake RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 5 Longham Lakes, 2 Swineham
Greenshank - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Hengistbury
Cuckoo - 1 South Haven
Short-eared Owl - 1 Wyke Down
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 Lodmoor RSPB and singles in the morning and afternoon at Radipole RSPB. All 3 headed north soon after being seen so it's likely 3 birds were involved.
Grasshopper Warbler - good numbers including 13+ Portland Bill, 9+ Durlston CP, 1 Stanpit, 1 Hengistbury, 1 Rylands Barn Martinstown
Pied Flycatcher - many reports today including 5 Southwell, 3 Avalanche Rd Portland, 2 Hengistbury Head
Whinchat - c12 Tarrant Rushton airfield, 1 West Bexington, 1 Hengistbury Head

Black-headed Gull at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Pied Flycatcher at Portesham © Allan Dymock