Sightings - Wednesday 3rd October 2018

Velvet Scoter - 4 Durlston flew west
Wigeon - 381 Holes Bay
Cormorant - 200+ - Lytchett Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Bowleaze Cove
Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 3 Arne
Marsh Harrier - 1 Stanpit, 1 Lodmoor
Hobby - 1 Lodmoor
Avocet - 150+ Arne
Grey Phalarope - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 2 Arne
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Arne
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor
Knot - 1 Holes Bay
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Stanpit, 4 Lytchett Bay
Short-eared Owl - 1 Lodmoor flew east
Hoopoe - 1 Portland from edge of Moorfield Road, Easton
Woodlark - 2 Durlston
alba Wagtail - 650 roosting at Lytchett Bay
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Stanpit
Whinchat - 1 Stanpit
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 unconfirmed Durlston
Firecrest - 1 Lytchett Heath
Redpoll - 4 Hengistbury Head
Hawfinch - 1 Durlston
Great White Egret, Lodmoor, copyright Clive and 
Rosemary Hargreaves
Hoopoe, Portland, copyright Roger Hewitt
Ringed Plovers and Dunlin at Hengistbury Head,
copyright David Wareham 

Ruff, Lodmoor , Clive and Rosemary Hargreaves