Sightings - Friday 6th April 2018

Garganey - 2 (m+f) Chesil Cove
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Manx Shearwater - 16 Chesil Cove
Great White Egret - 1 Coward's Marsh, 1 Hampreston Meadows
Cattle Egret - 1 West Bexington
Spoonbill - 4 Arne RSPB, 1 Stanpit
Osprey - 1 over Stoborough, 1 over PBO, 1 Middlebere
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black-tailed Godwit - 500+ Brownsea Island lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Arctic Skua - 6 Chesil Cove, 1 Mudeford Quay
Sandwich Tern - 127 Chesil Cove, 17 Hengistbury Head
Arctic Tern - 4 Chesil Cove
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 Longham Lakes
Little Gull - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Mudeford Quay
Caspian Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Radipole RSPB (different bird from yesterday)
White Wagtail - 1 Longham Lakes
Black Redstart - 2 Reap Lane (Portland), 1 Middlebere
Hawfinch - 6 Lower Bryanston

Hawfinch at Lower Bryanston © Michael Coleman

Reed Bunting at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Siberian Chiffchaff at Radipole RSPB © Edmund Mackrill

Wren at Eastcliff © David Wareham