Sightings - Sunday 18th May 2014

Mandarin - 2 adults with 5 chicks on R. Stour near Hod Hill
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 over Wareham
Spoonbill - 3 Middelbere
Black Kite - a probable reported at East Stour
Red Kite - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 2 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 still at Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 2 Swineham GPs
Arctic Tern - 34 over Chesil, 1 Lodmoor
Puffin - 3 Dancing Ledge (4 seen yesterday)
Turtle Dove - 1 Chickerell
Cuckoo -  1 Herbury (The Fleet), 1 Southwell, 1 Lodmoor
Whinchat - 1 Barleycrates Lane (Portland)

Mandarin on R. Stour near Hod Hill © Stuart Jones

Dunlin at Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale