Sightings - Wednesday 5th October 2016

Garganey - 2 Radipole
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 drake past Hengistbury Hd.
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
Great White Egret - 6 NW West Bexington
Spoonbill - 52 Poole Hbr.
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Poole Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 Worth Matravers
Golden Plover - 2 past Hengistbury Hd.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Common Tern - 3 Hengistbury Hd.
Arctic Tern - 1 Poole Hbr Mouth.
Little Gull - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Hobby - 1 Hengistbury Hd. 1 Forston.
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 West Wears, 1 Pennsylvania Castle Portland.
Sub-alpine Warbler - 1 male on West Cliffs.
Ring Ouzel - 4 Radipole Lake, 2 Lodmoor
Redstart - 1 Thorncombe, 1 Wareham garden.
Little Bunting - 1 West Cliff's Portland.

Todays Visual Migration
Swallow - 800+ Radipole Lake
House Martin - 200+ Radipole Lake
Song Thrush - 50 Radipole Lake, 6 Hengistbury Hd.
'Alba' Wagtails - 152 Hengistbury Hd, 150 Radipole Lake.
Meadow Pipit - 110 Hengistbury Hd.
Linnet - 350 Radipole Lake, 300 Lodmoor, 295 Hengistbury Hd.
Goldfinch - 25 Hengistbury Hd.
Siskin - 43 Hengistbury Hd.

Common Buzzard - Brownsea Island © Tim Balmer


Little Egrets - Brownsea Island © Tim Balmer