Sightings - Thursday 27th August 2020

Goosander - 2 Coward's Marsh
Manx Shearwater - 32 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 11 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea Is.
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Coward's Marsh, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hive Point Fleet.
Ringed Plover - 245 Brownsea Is (high count for site), 244 Ferrybridge
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Is.
Little Stint - 2 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 12 Abbotsbury swannery, 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 17 Brownsea Is, 9 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Arctic Skua - 3 Portland Bill
Swift - 10+ Longham Lakes, 2 Forston
Merlin - 1 Burton Bradstock
Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Lytchett fields RSPB
Sand Martin - 100 Stanpit Marsh
Wood Warbler - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Grasshopper Warbler - 4 Lytchett Bay (trapped & Ringed), 1 Stanpit Marsh
Whinchat - 5 Stanpit Marsh, 3 Ferrybridge, 2 Coward's Marsh, 1 Abbottsbury, 1 Burton Bradstock
Wheatear - 21 Stanpit Marsh
Pied Flycatcher - 2 Portland Bill
Yellow Wagtail - 82 Portland Bill, 37 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 35 Eye Mead, 25 Burton Bradstock, 15 Stanpit Marsh, 6 Coward's Marsh, 2 Stonebarrow, 1 Ferrybridge
Tree Pipit - 2 trapped & ringed Lytchett Bay.

Nocternal Migration - (NocMig) Last Night
Tree Pipit - 746 calls recorded over Portland Obs, 10+ Lytchett Bay
Ortolan Bunting - 1 over Stoborough

Sanderling - Ferrybridge © Alick Simmons


















Sandwich Tern - Ferrybridge © Alick Simmons