Sightings - Thursday 14th September 2017

Garganey - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Goosander - 6 Hengistbury Head
Storm Petrel - 4+ Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 7 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Fields
Osprey - 1Wareham Channel, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Merlin - 3  Slepe Heath/Wareham Channel area
Hobby - 1 near Langton Herring
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
STILT SANDPIPER - 1 Lodmoor
LEAST SANDPIPER  1 Lodmoor
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 on Brownsea Island lagoon
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Grey Phalarope - 5 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Langton Hive
Arctic Tern -  12+ West Bexington, 2 Portland Bill, 1 Studland Bay
Hoopoe - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill
Redstart - 1 near Langton Herring, 1 Coombe Valley Road (N of Weymouth)
Whinchat - 1 White Nothe, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Portland Bill
Tawny Pipit - 1 over Brownsea Island
Tree Pipit - 1 White Nothe

Stilt Sandpiper at Lodmoor © Derek Fowler
Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Portland Bill © Chris Minvalla


Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Portland Bill © Roger Hewitt

Oystercatcher at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy
Redshank at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Yellow Wagtails at Lodmoor © Derek Fowler


Great White Egret at Lodmoor © Derek Fowler