Sightings - Saturday 29th October 2016

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 3 Ferrybridge
Scaup - 8 Abbotsbury Swannery
Bittern - 1 Radipole, 1 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Radipole (also at Lodmoor)
Spoonbill - 34 Brownsea Island, 1 Radipole (also at Lodmoor)
Golden Plover - 250+ Maiden Castle
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 9 Brownsea Island
Greenshank - 24 Brownsea Island
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Turtle Dove - 1 Reap Lane Portland
Short-eared Owl - 1 Durlston CP
Merlin - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brownsea Island
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Sweethill Portland, 1 Arne
Woodlark - 3+ Portland
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Cove Holiday Park Portland, 1 East Weare Portland, 1 Southwell Portland, 1 Arne, 1 West Bay
Dusky Warbler - 1 Southwell  Portland
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Church Ope Cove Portland
Eastern Lesser Whitethroat - 1 trapped & ringed at Portland Bird Observatory, also possible still at Highcliffe on the undercliff
Waxwing - 1 reported south over East Holme
Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 5 Blacknor Portland, 1 trapped & ringed at Portland Bird Observatory
Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle
Red-throated Pipit - 1 over Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields
Little Bunting - 1 trapped & ringed at Portland Bill