Sightings - Wednesday 6th November 2019

Egyptain Goose - 4 past Portland Bill
Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Portland Hbr.
Velvet Scoter - 1 (drake) Brand' Bay
Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Hbr
Great White Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Longham Lakes
Red-necked Grebe - 1 east Hengistbury Hd.
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Brand's Bay, 3 Portland Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 (male) Morden Bog
Great Bustard - 1 over Brownsea Is. (presumed Salisbury Introduction)
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holton Pools
Green Sandpiper - 2 Swineham scarpe, 1 Holton Pools, 1 Ferrybridge
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Swineham (on new scrape)
Firecrest - 5 Hengistbruy Hd, 5 Durlston CP, 3 Wakeham, 1 Swanage
Swallow - 20+ Durlston CP, 1 Wakeham
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Wakeham (along railway cutting)
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Durlston CP.
Black Redstart - 1 Charmouth (by Watch House), 1 Kimmeridge
Water Pipit - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Snow Bunting - 1 over Hengistbury Hd
Little Bunting - 1 in Southwell garden

Visual migration - high counts
Woodpigeon - 50,000 over Poole Hbr, 25,000 Hengistbury Hd. 1750 West Bay
Starling - 22,000 West Bay

Redwing - Bournemouth © David Wareham