Sightings - Saturday 20th August 2011

Mandarin Duck - 4 Chard Junction GPs
Manx Shearwater - 2 past Durlston
Cattle Egret - 1 summer plumage at Avon Causeway this evening
Osprey - 2 Arne, 1 over Portland, 1 juvenile over Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 3 Bryanston, 1 Durlston
Whimbrel - 2 Brand's Bay, 2 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper - 4 Stanpit, 4 Brand's Bay, 3 Middlebere, 3 Longham Lakes, 2 Chard Junction GPs
Green Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes
Wood Sandpiper –1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Sabine's Gull - 1st summer at Avon Causeway today, then at Stanpit Marsh in the evening
Nightjar - 1 Studland
Wryneck - 1 Winspit
Yellow Wagtail - about 100 at Abbotsbury Swannery, 66 Christchurch Harbour, about 30 at Portland
Aquatic Warbler - 1 ringed at Lytchett Bay

Osprey at Arne ©Dominic Greves