Sightings - Saturday 30th July 2011

Quail - 4 singing at Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Manx Shearwater - 30 Abbotsbury
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Is.
Hobby - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Lodmoor
Avocet - 25 Brownsea Is.
Golden Plover - 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 ad/sum Lodmoor
Ruff - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Whimbrel - 7 Christchurch Hbr, 1 Abbotsbury
Common Sandpiper - 28 Stanpit Marsh, 4 West Bay, singles Abbotsbury and Rodden Hive
Spotted Redshank - 6 Brownsea Is.
Greenshank - 7 Brownsea Is, 3 Christchurch Hbr.
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great Skua - 2 Abbotsbury
Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill
Little Tern - 4 Hengistbury Hd.
Arctic Tern - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Swift - 150 Hengistbury Hd.
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP.
Whinchat - singles at Portland Bill and St Aldhelm's Hd.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP.
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stanpit, 1 Morden Bog (Decoy Cottage)


Hobby at Lodmoor © Daragh Croxson
Yesterday's Cory's Shearwater at Weymouth Bay © James Phillips
This bird was seen from a Marinelife evening Balearic Shearwater survey
Another photo of yesterday's Cory's Shearwater © James Phillips