Sightings - Sunday 30th October 2011

Red-Breasted Goose - 1 Ferrybridge
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Arne Bay, 1 Brands Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Marsh Harrier - 3 Holton Lee, 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Weymouth
Merlin - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 West Bexington
Knot - 1 Lytchett Bay, 2 Upton CP.
Sanderling - 2 Hengistbury Head
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor, 2 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit, 3 Upton CP
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Caspian Gull - 1 Portland Bill is the first confirmed record there
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge
Black Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Black Guillemot - 1 Portland Bill
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Holton Lee, 1 West Bexington
Wryneck - 1 Wick
Turtle Dove - 1 Portland Bill
Pallas' Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Pennsylvania Castle (Portland)
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head
Dartford Warbler - 1 at Cogden was the first recorded there this year.
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Pennsylvania Castle (Portland)

Late news - Mediterranean Gull - 500 at Ferrybridge recently is a county record