Sightings - Tuesday 29th August 2017

Cattle Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Quail - 1 Cogden Beach
Spoonbill - 29 Middlebere
Ringed Plover - 61 Ferrybridge, 22 Lytchett Fields
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Wick
Green Sandpiper - 14 Lytchett Fields
Ruff - 1 Lychett Fields
Dunlin - 183 Lychett Fields
Sanderling - 6 Ferrybridge
House Martin - 75 Hengistbury Head
Yellow Wagtail - 15 Hengistbury Head
Tree Pipit - 3 Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 3 Hengistbury Head, 3 Ballard Down
Whinchat - 1 Ballard Down
Blackcap - 19 Hengistbury Head 
Hooded Crow - 1 Studland (Glebelands/Ballard Down)

Late news yesterday - 13 Balearic Shearwaters, Short-eared Owl and Pied Flycatcher Portland.
                                    Little Gull Stanpit

Wood Sandpiper - Lytchett Fields © Ian Ballam

Little Egret - Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy
Redstart - Middlebere © Clive Hargrave


Spotted Flycatcher - Middlebere © Clive Hargrave

Stonechat - Hengistbury Head © David Wareham

Ruff and Black-tailed Godwit - Lytchett Fields © Ian Ballam