Sightings - Saturday 1st September 2012

There was a movement of wildfowl into Christchurch Harbour today, unusual for the time of year.
Balearic Shearwater - 2 Hengistbury Head
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 3 Morden Bog
Golden Plover  - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 1 at Lodmoor
Knot - 17 Christchurch Harbour
Little Stint - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Green Sandpiper - 3+ Lodmoor
Common Sandpiper - 6+ Lodmoor, 3 Christchurch Harbour
Arctic Skua - 6 Hengistbury Head, 1 again inland over West Compton
Common Tern - 500+ Hengistbury Head
Sandwich Tern - 285 Hengistbury Head
Black Tern - 1 at Abbotsbury Swannery
Wryneck - 1 West Bexington, 1 West Compton
Swift - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Durlston
Yellow Wagtail - 6 Wick, 1 Wyke Regis Bridging Camp
Wheatear - highest counts 22 Christchurch Harbour, 22+ Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 15 Tidmoor Rifle Range
Redstart - 6 Durlston 4 Morden Bog 1 Puncknowle 1Tidmoor Rifle Range 1 Wick
Whinchat - 7 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Cogden Beach, 1 Durlston, 4 Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 2 Wyke Regis Bridging Camp
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland
Firecrest - 5 Abbotsbury Gardens, 1 Durlston
Woodchat Shrike - 1 still near Wyke Regis Bridging Camp

 
Hobby at Morden Bog © Paul Morton

Redstart at Morden Bog @ Will Bown