Sightings - Thursday 26th September 2019

Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes
Eider - 1 Lyme Regis
Common Scoter - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 142 past Portland Bill, 1 past Ringstead Bay
Great White Egret - 6 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 over Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay
Hobby - 3 Hyde's Heath, 2 Middlebere
Merlin - 1 Swineham, 1 Durlston CP
Whimbrel - 1 Middlebere
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Brownsea Island
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill, 1 past Durlston CP
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill
Redstart - 1 Reap Lane (Portland)
Yellow Wagtail - 5 Swineham
Richard's Pipit - 1 heard over Portland Bill
Meadow Pipit - 9,250+ heading W over Durlston CP in morning, c5,000 South over Portland Bill

Juvenile Stock Doves in nest at Canford © Roger Peart



Eider at Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell
Scaup at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart
Common Scoter at Radipole Lake RSPB © Vaughan Ashby