Sightings - Monday 27th August 2012

Balearic Shearwater - 12 past Hengistbury Head, 10 past Portland Bill, 2 Weymouth Bay
Sooty Shearwater - 4 past Portland Bill
European Storm-petrel - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury
Marsh Harrier - 6 at roost in Poole harbour, possibly one of these later at Lytchett Bay
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lodmoor
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Bay, 2 Middlebere
Greenshank - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wick, 1 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Arctic Skua - 40 Portland Bill, 21 off Hengistbury Head, 1 Weymouth Bay
Long-tailed Skua - 1 Weymouth Bay
Great Skua - 9 past Portland Bill,  3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Weymouth Bay
Black Tern - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Weymouth Bay
Arctic Tern - 2 from Hengistbury Head
Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill, 1 still at NT cottages Middlebere
Redstart - 1 Swyre Head
Whinchat - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Portland Bill
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill
Woodchat Shrike - 1 still at the Bridging Camp, The Fleet

Late news: A Wryneck was photographed in Uploders on 21st August, and one was seen at Cogden Beach yesterday.