Sightings - Thursday 30th August 2018

Balearic Shearwater - 26 Portland Bill
Little Egret - c 67 Lytchett Bay area
Spoonbill - 1 Hengistbury Head
Osprey -  4 Lytchett Bay, 1 south over Ferrybridge, 1 west along Fleet at Wyke Regis
Merlin - 1 Abbotsbury
Whimbrel - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Brand's Bay
Knot - 3 Abbotsbury
Common Sandpiper - 3+ Abbotsbury, 1 Longham Lakes
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 1 heard near Wick (Christchurch Harbour)
Black Tern - 1 juv Longham Lakes
Short-eared Owl - 1 Durlston CP
Wryneck - yesterday's bird re-trapped at PBO
Redstart - 8  Durlston CP, 2 Sturminster Marshall GP, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Ballard Down,  1 Brand's Bay
Whinchat -  11 Abbotsbury, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Durlston CP
Yellow Wagtail - 150 Abbotsbury, 45 over Hengistbury, 3 over Portland