Sightings - Tuesday 18th July 2017.

Common Scoter - 77 past Portland Bill, 14 past Mudeford Quay.
Goosander - 7 on River Stour nr. Canford School.
Balearic Shearwater - 1 off Portland Bill.
Great White Egret - 1 over Longham Lakes.
Spoonbill - 7 Lytchett Bay.
Avocet - 8 plus 3 chicks Brownsea.
Lapwing - 87 Lytchett Fields.
Whimbrel - 8 Lytchett Bay, 3 Stanpit Marsh.
Curlew - 3 Brownsea.
Sanderling - 15 Ferrybridge.
Common Sandpiper - 8 Lytchett Fields, 2 Brownsea, 1 Hengistbury Head.
Green Sandpiper - 15 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 4 Lytchett Fields, 1 Brownsea.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Hut Fields Portland.
Little Tern - potentially 70+ fledged Chesil Beach.
Common Tern - 34 past Mudeford Quay, 2 Longham Lakes 1 adult feeding a juv.
Swallow - 300+ over Ferrybridge this morning.
Sand Martin - 300+ over Ferrybridge this morning.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Southwell.
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 pair have raised at least 2 young Portesham.

Common Sandpiper – Brownsea © Clinton Whale.

Pied Wagtail on nest –Canford © Roger Peart.