Sightings - Monday 31st July 2017

Common Scoter - 10 past Hengistbury Hd.
Goosander - 6 on the Fleet
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 12+ Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery (2ad+1juv)
Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere
Montagu's Harrier - 1 ringtail Lytchett Fields p.m.
Osprey - 2 in flight Arne/Middlebere
Whimbrel - 4 Christchurch Hbr.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Christchurch Hbr, 1 past Mudeford Quay
Green Sandpiper - 1+ Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 4 Lytchett Fields
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 1st/sum, Brownsea Island lagoon
Yellow-legged Gull - 5 juv. Portland Bill
Nightjar - 1 today in a Portesham garden
Hobby - 1 Longham lakes
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Willow Warbler - 14 Hengistbury Hd.
Whitethroat - 15 Hengistbury Hd.

Nightjar - Portesham garden © Sue Wingett

















Sandwich Tern - Hengistbury Hd, © Joe Murphy