Sightings - Saturday 12th May 2012

Common Scoter - 58 Hengistbury Head
Red Kite - 1+ at Cogden.  5-7 over Purewell and West Christchurch.  1 over St. Ives (Ashley Heath).
Marsh Harrier - 1 over Purewell.
Hobby - 1 Arne.  4 Morden Bog. 1 Swineham.
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit
Sanderling - 2 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 2 past Hengistbury, 1 Stanpit
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Cogden, 1 Swineham.
Wheatear - 1 in a Moordown garden, unusually.
Redstart - 1 was ringed at Durlston Head.  1 Hengistbury Head.  2 Morden Bog.
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Abbotsbury.  1 was ringed at Durlston Head.  6 Hengistbury Head.
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Nightingale - 1 heard at Longham Lakes.
Lesser Whitethroat - 3 Hengistbury Head
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston Head
Firecrest - 2 Abbotsbury
Golden Oriole - 1 female-type at Hengistbury Head.


Late news:  A Nightjar was flushed at Town Common, Hurn, on 8th May.

Dartford Warbler at Durlston Head © Will Bown