Sightings - Saturday 5th October 2013

Balearic Shearwater - 7 Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit
Spoonbill - 1+ Lodmoor
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere
Hen Harrier - 1 subadult male Middlebere
Hobby - 1 Portland East Weares, 3 Weymouth
Grey Plover - 8 Stanpit
Knot - 18 Brownsea Island, 2 Stanpit
Little Stint - 3 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Island
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Spotted Redshank - 13 Brownsea Island, 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 15 Brownsea Island, 4 Stanpit
Grey Phalarope - 1 Brownsea Island
Long-Tailed Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head
Roseate Tern - 1 Stanpit, plus a possible at Mudeford Quay
Richard's Pipit - 1 Portland Bill
Redstart - 1 Portland (Langly Close)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Stanpit
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Portland (Perryfields)
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 Portland (Penn's Weare), 1 Portland (Southwell), 1 Weymouth (Littlesea Wood)
Red-Breasted Flycatcher - 1 still at the Bridging Camp, Wyke Regis
Red-backed Shrike - 1 still at the Bridging Camp, Wyke Regis
Brambling - 1 Hengistbury Head (first of the autumn there)
Tree Sparrow - 1 Portland Bill


Marsh Harrier at Middlebere © Paul Thompson

Hen Harrier at Middlebere © Paul Thompson

Kestrel at Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Spoonbill at Lodmoor © Andrew Maynard