Sightings - Friday 30th August 2019

Balearic Shearwater - 20+ off Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - Good passage, over 1000+ in ten minutes
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 22 Brownsea Island NT, 19 from Osprey cruise, 4 Lytchett Bay
Osprey - 2 Arne, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Lyme Regis flying east
Honey Buzzard - 4 south Lodmoor
Hen Harrier - 1 juv female Slepe Heath
Spotted Redshank - 7 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 14 Lytchett Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 4 juvs Lytchett Bay, 2 Brownsea Island NT
Sanderling - 1 Brownsea Island NT
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Tern - 1 from MS Barfleur
Wryneck - 1 Durlston CP
Yellow Wagtail - 7 Sunnyside Farm
Wheatear - 37 between Ringstead and White Nothe
Whinchat - 10 between Ringstead and White Nothe, 4 St Adhelms Head, 1 Morden Bog
Redstart - 1 Soldier's Road
Pied Flycatcher - 1 White Nothe cottages and 1 on coast path, 1 Coombe Heath, 1 Swineham Point
Spotted Flycatcher- 1Coombe Heath
Ring-necked Parakeet - 8 Swanage

Other news - Long-tailed Blue butterfly seen in a Stanpit garden by experienced observer on 27.8.19.

Grey Heron chasing Great White Egret Lodmoor copyright Rebecca Porter