Sightings - Tuesday 2nd October 2012

Goldeneye - 1 Radipole
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Chesil Cove, 11 Durlston, 4 The Nothe, 80 Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 3 Mudeford Quay, 60 Portland Bill, 1 Weymouth Bay
Manx Shearwater - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 12+ Brownsea
Merlin - 1 Durlston, 2 Portland Bill
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit
Knot - 5 Brownsea, 1 Stanpit
Sanderling - 1 Mudeford Quay
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 13 Brownsea, 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit.
Arctic Skua - 1 Durlston
Great Skua - 1 Chesil Cove, 3 Portland
Mediterranean Gull - 246 past Durlston Head plus 40+ in Durlston Bay is the reserve's highest ever count
Little Gull - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Durlston
Firecrest - 1 Corfe Mullen
Red-Backed Shrike - 1 Southwell (Portland)
Jay - reported in unusual numbers (more than ten birds together) from several locations

Late news:  Red Kite at Abbotsbury yesterday