Sightings - Monday 10th April 2017

Long-tailed Duck - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 2 near Holmebridge
Osprey - 1 over Weston, Portland
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Whimbrel - 4 past Hengistbury Head, 2 Lytchett Fields, 2 Lodmoor
Common Sandpiper - 2 Portland Harbour
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1  in Lytchett Bay and later on Lytchett Fields
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog
Waxwing - 1 still at Cherryfields, Gillingham
Nightingale - 1 Wick, Hengistbury Head
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 2 Hengistbury Head

Yesterday : A Cuckoo heard and briefly seen at Melbury Hill.


Lesser Black-backed Gull at Stanpit © Joe Murphy

Stonechat at Talbot Heath © David Wareham