Sightings - Saturday 8th November 2014

Long-tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury (the Fleet)
Great Northern Diver - 3 Branksome Chine, 2 Hengistbury Head
Red-throated Diver - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill
Leach's Petrel - 1 Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 Brands Bay
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury, 7 at roosts in Poole Harbour
Hen Harrier - 2 at roosts in Poole Harbour
Merlin - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Golden Plover - 100 Tarrant Hinton
Grey Plover - 3 Hengistbury Head
Woodcock - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Hengistbury sandspit
Short-eared Owl - 2 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 3 Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 Branksome Chine, 2 Mudeford-Hengistbury, 1 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 4 Branksome Chine, 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Mudeford Quay
Little Gull - 3 Branksome Chine, 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow-Legged Gull - 2 Abbotsbury (the Fleet)
Little Auk - 1 Abbotsbury (the Fleet), 3 Portland Bill
Swallow - 1 Brands Bay
Black Redstart - 1 Marshwood, 1 Portland (Blacknor)
Firecrest - 2 Arne, 2+ Hengistbury Head
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrew

Purple Sandpiper on Hengistbury sandspit © Clinton Whale