Sightings - Sunday 15th July 2012

Relatively little to report today, but signs of passage wader numbers starting to pick up. 

Manx Sherwater - 150, Portland
Balearic Shearwater - 3, Portland
Common Scoter - 45 Portland
Arctic Skua - 2, Portland
Knot - 1, Ferrybridge
Curlew - notable arrival in Poole Harbour, with a count of 64 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Bay
Dunlin - 1 inland record at Longham Lakes
Whimbrel - reported from Lytchett, Christchurch Harbour, Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 3, Longham Lakes
Common Crossbill - 2, Upwey

Knot at Ferrybridge.  Copyright Will Bown.