Sightings - Friday 15th April 2011

Garganey - 4 (2 pairs) Longham Lakes
Velvet Scoter - 6 past Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill - the recent series of records is thought to be of a single lingering bird.
Spoonbill - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour went north up the Avon valley.
Avocet - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Hengistbury Head
Whimbrel - 4 past Durlston Head. 6 past Hengistbury Head, 3 past Portland Bill
Common Sandpiper - 6 Ferrybridge, 3 Pirate's Cove (The Fleet)
Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Common Tern - 4 past Durlston Head, 1 past Hengistbury Head
Cuckoo - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Hengistbury Head, 4 Portland Bill
Waxwing - 5 roosting Canford Heath NR
Nightingale - 1 Corfe Castle
Black Redstart - 1 Reap Lane (Portland)
Redstart - 4 Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 Barleycrates Lane (Portland), 1 Durlston Head
Wheatear - 9 Hengistbury Head, 75 Portland Bill
Ring Ouzel - 1 Cogden, 1 Portland Bill
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Cogden, 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Durlston Head, 1 nr Ferrybridge, 6 Portland Bill
Blackcap - 10 Durlston Head
Garden Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head is the first CHOG record this year
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 Durlston Head
Willow Warbler - 100 Portland Bill
Brambling - 1 Hengistbury Head

There was an unconfirmed report of a Cretzschmar's Bunting at Kimmeridge.