Saturday 2nd September 2023

Ruff - 5 Swineham, 1 Arne Moors RSPB, 1 Stanpit
Knot - 41 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 2 Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Little Stint - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sanderling - 8 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 4 Stanpit
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 1 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea View
Wood Sandpier - 1 Arne Moors RSPB and later at Swineham
Greenshank - 12 Brownsea Island lagoon, 1 Stanpit
FORSTER'S TERN  - 1st summer at Brownsea Island Lagoon in morning and at Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB in afternoon
Long-tailed Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 5 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 500 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 42 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Osprey - 6 Poole Harbour, 1 Abbotsbury
Hobby - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Merlin - 1 Arne Moors RSPB
Red-backed Shrike - 1 St Aldhelm's Head on north slope of Pier Bottom (SY960760), 1 Langton Herring along Coastguard Road (SY609820)
Spotted Flycatcher -2 Stanpit
Grasshopper Warbler - 6 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP
Firecrest - 2  trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Head
Redstart -  2 California Farm, 1 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 1 Wick
Whinchat - 2 California Farm
Wheatear - 15 Stanpit, 4 Tidmoor Point, 4 Arne Moors
Yellow Wagtail - 8 Swineham Point, 5 California Farm,  5 Langton Herring, 4 Nottington, 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Siskin - 50 over Hengistbury Head

Red-backed Shrike, St Aldhelm's Head © Steve Smith


Osprey, Abbotsbury © Sue Wingett

Red-backed Shrike, Langton Herring © Steve Mansfield