Sightings - Friday 6th May 2016

Great Northern Diver - 1 summer-plumaged bird past Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill.
Red-Throated Diver -1 past Hengistbury Head.
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 summer-plumaged bird off West Bexington.
CATTLE EGRET - 1 Lodmoor.
BLACK-WINGED STILT - 2 Stanpit then flew NE.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 past Hengistbury Head, 1 West Bexington.
Hen Harrier - 1 Poole Harbour.
PALLID HARRIER - 1 probable over Hengistbury Head.
Honey Buzzard - 1 NE over Holton Lee.
Red Kite - 7 reports from across the county covering at least 13 birds today.
Osprey - 1 Hengistbury Head.
RED-FOOTED FALCON - 1 Morden Bog.
Hobby - 1 Arne, 3 off the sea at Hengistbury Head.
Grey Plover - 18 Chesil, 3 Christchurch Harbour, 13 off Grip Heath, 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Kentish Plover - 1 briefly Hengistbury Head.
Whimbrel - 7 reports from the coast covering at least 40 birds today.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Bay.
Pomarine Skua - 8 Chesil, 4 Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 2 Chesil.
Iceland Gull - 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Black Tern - 7 Chesil, 9 Hengistbury Head, 3 Portland Bill.
Arctic Tern - 5 Mudeford Quay.
Roseate Tern - 2 Mudeford Quay, 1 Portland Bill.
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Whinchat - 1 Coombe Heath, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Reap Lane Portland, 1 Renscombe.
Redstart - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Black Redstart - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Ballard Down.
Cattle Egret Lodmoor © Jol Mitchell



Little Egret at Durlston Head © Geoff Norquoy


Black Redstart at Lytchett Bay © Clive Hargrave

















Female Whinchat at Lytchett Bay © Clive Hargrave


Red-necked Grebe off West Bexington © M J Morse