Sightings - Thursday 16th May 2019

Garganey - 1 duck Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 Blandford
Spoonbill - 1 flew west over Christchurch Harbour
Common Crane - 1 Wareham flew towards Middlebere
Avocet - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Little Stint - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Littlesea, the Fleet, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 3 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 11 Stanpit Marsh
Pomarine Skua - 7 past Ferrybridge, 5 past Portland, 4 past Lyme Regis, 4 past Charmouth all east
Little Gull - 1 1st summer Lodmoor RSPB
Turtle Dove - 1 Burton in private garden, 1 Stanpit Marsh,
Cuckoo - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 behind Ridge Wharf, Wareham
Nightjar - 2 or 3 calling Hurn Forest
Bee-eater - 1 Portland

Grey Plover Littlesea, the Fleet copyright Freddy Alway

Common Sandpiper Littlesea, the Fleet copyright Freddy Alway

Linnet Hengistbury Head copyright David Wareham