Sightings - Monday 17th September 2012


Balearic Shearwater - 20 off Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 over R.Avon 0.5 miles south of Ringwood
Osprey - 1 still at Abbotsbury
Hobby - 3 Morden Bog, 1 over Hengistbury
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 still at Ferrybridge
Little Ringed Plover - 1 over Hengistbury Head
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - juvenile still on the west scrape at Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank -1 Fisherman's Bank (Christchurch Harbour)
Wryneck - 1 Cogden Beach
Meadow Pipit - 560 over Christchurch Harbour
Redstart - 2 Morden Bog
Whinchat - 2 Morden Bog
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Hengistbury
Spotted Flycatcher - 2 West Bexington, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Hengistbury
Ortalan Bunting - 1 trapped and ringed at Portland Bill

Wryneck at Cogden Beach © Mike Morse
Short-billed Dowitcher at Lodmoor today © Will Bown