Sightings - Wednesday 2nd October 2019

Goosander - 3 Stanpit Bight
Greylag Goose - 90+ over Silverlake
Cattle Egret - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - c30 Poole Harbour
Osprey - up to 9 in Poole Harbour area
Sparrowhawk - 6+ Wareham Channel
Hobby - 1 Ringstead, 1 Stanpit
Golden Plover - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 3 Stanpit
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island, 1 over Abbotsbury Swannery
Grey Phalarope - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery near tank teeth
Spotted Redshank -3 Brownsea Island, 2 Stanpit
Jack Snipe - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Arctic Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Short-eared Owl - 1 Ringstead
Goldcrest - 18 ringed at Durlston CP
Firecrest - 3 Brownsea Island
Ring Ouzel - 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Littlesea (Studland)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ringstead
Whinchat - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Redstart - 1 trapped and ringed at Longham Lakes
Yellow Wagtail - 14 Lodmoor RSPB

Migration numbers reported today included:
Meadow Pipits - 770+ St Aldhelm's Head, min 1,500 at Ringstead 
Hirundines (mainly Swallows and House Martins) - several thousand at both St Aldhelm's Head and Wilkswood Farm near Langton Matravers
Skylark - c550 St Aldhelm's Head


Redstart trapped and ringed at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Yellow Wagtail at Lodmoor RSPB © David Wareham