Sightings - Tuesday 1st May 2018

Manx Shearwater - Steady passage past Portland
Cattle Egret - 1 Swineham Point
White Stork - 1wandering individual, seen over Canford Heath, Magna Academy and Stoborough
Glossy Ibis - Lytchett Fields and then seen at Arne
Greater Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury, 1 Longham Lakes
Mandarin Duck - 2 on River Stour near Canford School
Marsh Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel
Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Common Sandpiper - 3 Lodmoor
Great Skua - 2 past Portland
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 Longham Lakes
Redstart - 4 Portland, 1 Durlston
Golden Oriole - 1 male, 1 female/first summer male Portland

Glossy Ibis - Lytchett Fields RSPB © R.A. Howes
                                        

Glossy Ibis in flight © R.A. Howes
                                           

Green Woodpecker - Colehill garden © Trevor Wilkinson
          

Common Whitethroat - Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale