Sightings - Tuesday 4th September 2012

Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Is.
Montagu's Harrier - 1 fem Avon Causeway
Osprey - Singles reported from St. Ives Ashley Heath, Godlingston Heath, Holes Bay, Middlebere, Lodmoor, Fortuneswell Portland and Abbottsbury.
Merlin - 1 Durlston CP.
Hobby - 3 Hethfelton Forest, 2 Hengistbury Hd, 1 Longham Lakes
Avocet - 30+ Brownsea Is.
Ringed Plover - 50 Stanpit Marsh  
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 Lodmoor seen later to fly off.
Greenshank - 9 Stanpit Marsh, 8 Lytchett Bay
Wood Sandpiper - Stanpit Marsh
Turtles Dove - 1 Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 1 juv Greenlands Farm Studland
Wryneck - 2 West Bexington, 1 Abbotsbury
Tree Pipit - 8 Portland Bill, 7 Durlston CP, 5 Hengistbury Hd, 3 Lytchett Bay
Yellow Wagtail - 72 Lytchett Bay, 50 Portland Bill, 15 Durlston CP, 5 Hengistbury Hd.
Redstart - 23 Durlston CP, 3 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Monkey Jump Dorchester, 1 Longham Lakes
Whinchat - 15 Durlston CP, 4 Hengistbury hd, 2 Monkey Jump
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Flycatcher - 11 Durlston CP, 4 Hengistbury Hd.
Ortolan Bunting - 1 briefly West Bexington

Osprey - Middlebere © Dominic Greves