Sightings - Sunday 5th April 2020

Brent Geese - 4 past Charmouth, 6 at Stanpit Marsh
Common Scoter - 720 Portland Bill, 421 from Chesil Beach, 21 past Charmouth
Red-throated Diver - 20 from Chesil Beach, 2 Charmouth
Black-throated Diver - 1 Chesil Beach (sum/plum)
Manx Shearwater - 24 Chesil Beach, 3 Charmouth
Red Kite - singles from Moordown, Kinson, Canford Bottom, West Moors, Broadstone, Upton & West Morden.
Hen Harrier - 1 Wareham
Osprey - 1 Wareham, 1 Poole Hbr, 1 Christchurch
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Wareham Common, 1 Swineham on Stilt pools
Whimbrel - 43 Portland Bill, 33 from Chesil Beach, 5 Moordown, 3 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Bay
Arctic Skua - 16 Portland Bill, 15 from Chesil Beach
Sandwich Tern - 99 Portland Bill, 83 Chesil Beach, 30 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Charmouth
Common Tern - 1 East Fleet, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Arctic Tern - 1 Ferrbridge
Commic Terns - 111 Chesil Beach
Little Gull - 19 Portland Bill, 13 Chesil Beach
Laughing Dove - 1 Upton private garden for 6th day origin unknown
Swift - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Alpine Swift - 1 over Leigh West Dorset
Sand Martin - 6 Hengistbury Hd.
Swallow - 5 Sturminster Newton, 4 Sherborne, 2 Holt Heath, 1 Dancing Ledge, 1 Lytchett Bay
House Martin - 1 Dewlish, 1 Lytchett Bay
Ring Ouzel - 1 West Morden
Fieldfare - 16 Chesilborne

Robin - Tuckton garden © David Hill


Blackbird - Oakley © Roger Peart
Starling - Tuckton Garden © David Hill


Lesser Black-backed Gull - Holes Bay © David Foster