Sightings - Wednesday 13th September 2017

Garganey - 4 Longham Lakes
Goosander - 6 Stanpit
Manx Shearwater - 7 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 13 Portland Bill
Storm Petrel - 1 Portland Bill
Leach's Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 1 Hengistbury Head
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor
Osprey - 1 over Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields, at least 1 on Brownsea Island lagoon
STILT SANDPIPER - 1 Lodmoor
LEAST SANDPIPER  1 Lodmoor
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Grey Phalarope - 8 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Butterstreet Cove, 1 Cutleaves Cove,
                         1 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Greenshank - 1 Hengistbury Head
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Great Skua - 7 Portland Bill
Black Tern - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon, 1 Mudeford Quay, 1 Abbotsbury
Arctic Tern - 4 Mudeford Quay, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Portland Bill
Roseate Tern - 1 Hengistbury Head
Sabine's Gull - 1 past Portland Bill, 1 past Hengistbury Head
Little Gull - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Abbotsbury
Hoopoe - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill

Little Egret at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Great Crested Grebe at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Black-headed Gull at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Tufted Duck at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart