Sightings - Sunday 22nd October 2017.

Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 adult, 2 first winter birds.
Goosander - 3 redheads W Lodmoor RSPB.
Brent Goose - 16 Wareham Channel, 14 Christchurch Harbour.
Spoonbill - 14 Wareham Channel, 5 Lytchett Bay.
Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Merlin - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Slepe Heath, 1 Milborne St Andrew.
Golden Plover - c400 Maiden Castle.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Little Stint - 4 Lodmoor RSPB.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB.
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Wareham Channel.
Caspian Gull - 1 1cy Wareham Channel.
Arctic Tern - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB.
Turtle Dove - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Skylark - 34 over Lodmoor RSPB.
Swallow - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery, 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Ring Ouzel - 1 Valley of Stones,Portesham.
Wheatear - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Maiden Castle.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Portland, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Stour Valley LNR B'mouth.
Lesser Redpoll - 8 over Lodmoor RSPB.
Siskin - 20 Stanpit Marsh, 18 Lodmoor RSPB, 8 Portland Observatory.

Caspian Gull - Wareham Channel © Marcus Lawson

Caspian Gull - Wareham Channel © Marcus Lawson

Caspian Gull - Wareham Channel © Marcus Lawson


Little Stint – Lodmoor RSPB © Andrew Maynard.