Sightings - Friday 5th September 2014

Scaup - the long staying bird still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Hen Harrier - 1 juvenile at West Bexington
Osprey - 3 Poole Harbour/Hartland Moor
Ruff - 1 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit, 1 over Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Durlston
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Swift - 1 Durlston, 1 Stanpit
Wryneck - 1 Cogden, (also 1 reported at Elwell Fruit Farm, near Waytown, yesterday)
Grasshopper Warbler - 2 Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head
Icterine Warbler - 1 trapped at Portland Bird Obs
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Durlston
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Southwell, 1 Reap Lane (Portland)
Ortolan Bunting - 1 Portland Bill
 
Correction: There were 7 Curlew Sandpipers on Brownsea Island yesterday, not 2 as reported.
 
Yellow Wagtail at Longham Lakes © Paul Boult