Reports of interest, Monday 17th August 2020.

Great Northern Diver - 2 Cogden Beach.
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Lytchett Fields.
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 3-5 around Poole Harbour.
Whimbrel - 1 Poole Harbour, 7 Stanpit.
Knot - 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Ferrybridge.
Greenshank - 1+ Christchurch Harbour, 8 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Little Stint - 1 Brownsea Island.
Common Sandpiper - c.16 around Poole Harbour, 5 Stanpit.
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Stanpit.
Little Tern - 2 Stanpit.
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Portland (Blacknor), 1 Studland (South Haven).
Redstart - 2+ Lambert's Castle, 1 Maiden Castle (Hog Hill), 1 Talbot Heath.
Pied Flycatcher - 6 trapped and ringed Portland Bill, 3 elsewhere on Portland.
Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Studland South Haven.
Garden Warbler - 1 Portland Bill, 3 Stanpit.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.


Wheatear at Stanpit © Clinton Whale.
Wheatear at Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Juvenile Yellow-Legged Gull, Lytchett Fields yesterday © Nick Whitehouse.
Yellow-legged Gull at Lytchett Fields RSPB yesterday © Nick Whitehouse

Juvenile Mistle Thrush at Canford School © Roger Peart.
Mistle Thrush at Canford © Roger Peart