Sightings - Wednesday 9th September 2015

Great White Egret - 1 Arne, 1 Brand's Bay
Spoonbill - 25 Brownsea Island, 5 Shipstal Point, 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Osprey -  3 Arne, 1 Middlebere, 1 over Portland Bill, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Greenlands Farm
Merlin - 1 over East Bexington
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lodmoor
Little Stint - 2  Brownsea Island, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields, 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 14 Brownsea Island
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Ruff - 3 Lytchett Fields
Hoopoe - 1 Blacknor (Portland)
Whinchat - 5 West Bexington, 4 Christchurch Harbour
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Siskin - large movement noted from a number of sites including 888 South Haven, 178 East Bexington, 111+ Lodmoor
Little Bunting - 1 Portland Bill

Juvenile Great Black-backed Gull at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy