Sightings - Wednesday 31st August 2016

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Montagu's Harrier - 1 reported over Cogden Beach (via Birdguides)
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 over Upton CP
Knot - 3 Stanpit, 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Lytchett Fields
Ruff - 4 Lytchett Fields, 1 Radipole Lake
Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge
Little Stint - 4 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lytchett Fields
Firecrest - 5+ Moreton
Aquatic Warbler - 1 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Ballard Down
Pied Flycatcher - 3 Portland
Redstart - 1 Ballard Down
Whinchat - 1 near Twin Sails Bridge Poole
Wheatear - 8+ Stanpit, 3 Ballard Down, 2 near Twin Sails Bridge Poole, 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow Wagtail -  57 over Stanpit, c20 over Lytchett Fields, 10 Ballard Down, 2 Ferrybridge
Tree Pipit - 9 Ballard Down
Ortolan Bunting - 2 sound recorded last night over Stoborough

Aquatic Warbler at Lytchett Fields © Ian Ballam
Black-tailed Godwits spooked by an Osprey at Upton CP © Clinton Whale


Dunlin at Lodmoor © David Wareham