Dorset Birds: Sightings - Monday 6th April 2015

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Migrants were on the move today, with many reports of the more common early movers.

Common Scoter - 234 St Aldhelm's Head.
Velvet Scoter - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Manx Shearwater - 5 St Aldhelm's Head.
Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere.
Red Kite - 1 Boyshill, 1 Cerne Abbas, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Old Harry Rocks, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Worth Matravers.
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Portland West Cliffs.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Jack Snipe - 2 near Hurn.
Spotted Redshank 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank 1 Lytchett Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor.
Little Gull - 3 St Aldhelm's Head.
Puffin - 1 Portland Bill.
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Isle of Portland.
Yellow Wagtail - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Portland Bill.
White Wagtail - 1 Boyshill.
Tree Pipit - 1 reported Durlston CP.
Common Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1-2 Isle of Portland.
Black Redstart - 1 Swanage.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Suckthumb (Portland).
Sedge Warbler - 1 Christchurch Harbour.

Late news: Arctic Skua and two Great Skua past St Aldhelm's Head yesterday.

Fulmar at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy