Sightings - Friday 6th May 2011

Grey Partridge - 2 Maiden Castle
Manx Shearwater - 16 St Aldhelm's Head
Fulmar - 1 inside Christchurch Harbour is unusual
Cattle Egret - 1 near Swyre
Red Kite - 1 Hod Hill
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes, 1+ Morden, 1 Stanpit
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Sanderling - 4 past Durlston Head, 1 Stanpit
Curlew - 5 Stanpit are unusual in May
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Pomarine Skua - 2 West Bexington
Arctic Skua - 2 dark-morph St Aldhelm's Head
Great Skua - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Cuckoo - 1 Colehill, 1 Longham Lakes, 3+ Morden
Golden Oriole - 1 Portland Bill
Bee-eater - 1 Portland Bill
Turtle Dove - 1+ Durlston Head
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Hengistbury
Garden Warbler - 3 Hengistbury


Cuckoo at Morden Bog © Simon Kidner