Sightings - Thursday 26th October 2017

Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Lesser Scaup - 1 drake Longham Lakes
Bittern - 1Stanpit
Pallid Harrier - 1 juv Charmouth flew West this morning
Avocet - 25 Lytchett Bay (highest count this autumn here)
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Bay
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Little Stint - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head east
Bonxie - 1 Hengistbury Head west
Short-eared Owl - 2 Portland, top fields
Bearded Tit - 2 Longham
Woodlark - 1 Portland
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Portland Hump, 1 Portland, Avalanche Road, 1 Ballard Down, trapped, 1 Portland, Coombefield Road, 1 Durlston
Raddes Warbler - 1 Portland, Bumpers Lane
Siberian Chiffchiff - 4 Portland, trapped, 1 Arne
Ring Ouzel - 2 Portland, East Weare, 1 Portland, Bumpers Lane
Black Redstart - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Poole, Oakdale, Nansen Avenue, 1 Portland, by Pulpit Pub
Richards Pipit - Portland
Meadow Pipit - 230 Hengistbury Head
Brambling - 12 Hengistbury Head
Chaffinch - 230 Hengistbury Head
Hawfinch - 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Portland, Bumpers Lane, 1 Portland, north, 1 Greenlands Farm, 4 Weston Craft Centre, Portland, 1 Lytchett Fields, west
Linnet - 700 Hengistbury Head
Goldfinch - 1100 Hengistbury Head

Large thrush movement last night at Portland and Durlston

Pallid Harrier - Charmouth © Richard Phillips

Pallid Harrier - Charmouth © Richard Phillips

Pallid Harrier - Charmouth © Richard Phillips