Sightings - Sunday 10th April 2011

Egyptian Goose - 1 at Chard Junction GP
Red Kite - 1 Radipole Lake; 1 Abbotsbury Gardens; 1 Wyke Regis; 2 Lodmoor/White Horse Hill, 2 Studland/Ballard Down, 1 Ryall, 1 over Easton
Osprey - 1 flew north over Chickerell
Marsh Harrier - 2 Radipole

Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 Lodmoor
Greenshank - 4 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 2 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 1 Radipole

Green Sandpiper - 3 Hammoon, 1 Lytchett Bay
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 25+ past Portland Bill
Little Tern - 3 at Ferrybridge
Black Tern - 1 past Portland Bill
Whiskered Tern - 1 at Swineham is the first Poole Harbour record
Short-toed Lark - 1 at Portland Bill
Red-rumped Swallow - 1 over Southwell
Tree Pipit - 3 Portland
White Wagtail - 4 Portland
Yellow Wagtail - 7 Portland
Nightingale - 1 singing at Culverwell, Portland
Redstart - 10 Portland
Whinchat - 2 Top Fields, Portland, 1 on the undercliff between Eype and West Bay
Ring Ouzel - 2 Greenlands Farm, 1 Barleycrates Lane, Portland
Grasshopper Warbler - singles at Abbotsbury Gardens and Lodmoor. On Portland, 2 at the Bill and singles at Barleycrates Lane, Top Fields and Suckthumb Quarry
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 singing at Easton
Firecrest - 3+ Abbotsbury Gardens
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Barleycrates Lane, Portland, 1 at Weston
Woodchat Shrike - 1 Lytchett Bay (on private land)



Woodchat Shrike at Lytchett Bay © Kevin Lane

Whiskered Tern at Swineham GP © Kevin Lane

Whiskered Tern at Swineham GP © Brett Spencer