Sightings - Sunday 23rd October 2011

Pale-bellied Brent - 1 Ferrybridge
Black Brant -1 Ferrybridge
Red-breasted Goose - 1 1st/w Stanpit Marsh
Black-necked Grebe - 6 off Middle Beach
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill
Gannet 180 W, 1824 E St. Aldhelm's Hd.
Bittern - 1 Hatch Pond Poole
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 Wareham Channel.
Merlin - 3 Portland, singles at Wick, Durlston CP, St Aldhelm's Hd.
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Great Skua - 2 St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Durlston CP.
Pomarine Skua - 1 Durlston CP, 1 pos. St Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 6 Portland Bill, 2 St. Aldhelm's Hd, 1 Durlston CP
Little Gull - 1 ad Longham Lakes, 1 off Mudeford Quay
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP
Ring Ouzel - 1 Hill Bottom Isle of Purbeck
Fieldfare - 26 Hartland Moor, 5 Middlebere
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 trapped and ringed at Littlesea Fleet pos. of the halimodendri race
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Lancridge Portland
Snow Bunting - 1 Wyke Regis Bridging Camp

Marsh Harrier - Wareham Channel © Tim Balmer