Sightings - Monday August 31st 2020

Barnacle Goose - 1 Littlesea
Brent Goose - 2 pale bellied Lynch Cove
Garganey - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor
Great White Egret - 1 Brand's Bay
Osprey - 1 Stanpit marsh, 2 Wytch Farm, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor
Avocet - 1 Lodmoor, 4 Christchurch Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 3 Christchurch Harbour
Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields
Ruff - 1 adult, 1 juv Lodmoor, 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Greenshank 2 or 3 Lytchett Fields
Redshank - 35 Lytchett Fields
Turnstone - 3 Lytchett Fields
Short-eared Owl - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Woodlark - flock of 25 on farm near Wimborne
Tree Pipit - 10 farm near Wimborne
Yellow Wagtail - 30 Talbot Heath, 7 St Aldhelm's Head, 3 Maiden Castle, 4 Bestwall, 4 East Lulworth, 21 on farm near Wimborne
Dipper - on River Axe at Seaborough
Redstart - 5 Purbeck Coast, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Holt Heath, 2 Arish Mell area
Whinchat - 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Middlebere
Wheatear - 9 St Aldhelm's Head, 5 Maiden Castle, 7 Swineham
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Redcliffe Point
Sedge Warbler - 1 Swineham
Dartford Warbler - 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Spotted Flycatcher - 18 Purbeck coast, 1 St Aldhelm's Head
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Purbeck coast
Siskin - 22 Purbeck coast
Linnet - 100+ flock Maiden Castle

Further report from yesterday of a Honey Buzzard over Maiden Castle, plus 24 Wheatear, 1 Whinchat and 1 Spotted Flycatcher

Ruff at Lodmoor © Geoff Barlow

Wheatear at Stanpit © Dave Hill

Shoveler, RSPB Radipole Lake © Clinton Whale