Wednesday 9th September 2020.

Eider - 1 off Lyme Regis harbour.
Spoonbill - 2+ Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 Wick, 1 Worgret Heath.
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wareham Channel.
Hobby - 1 west over the sea past Hengistbury.
Golden Plover - c15 over East Parley.
Knot - c15 north Holes Bay, 2+ Middlebere.
Dotterel - 1 White Nothe.
Black-Tailed Godwit - 1073 north Holes Bay is a very good count for September.
Ruff - 1 Middlebere.
Greenshank - 1 Longham Lakes.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere.
Common Sandpiper - 2+ Stanpit.
Kingfisher - 1 Portland Bill was caught and ringed.
Yellow Wagtail - 80+ Wareham Common, 17 Stanpit, 40+ Wimborne Eye Mead
, 27 White Nothe.
Wheatear - 1+ Durlston CP, 3 Hengistbury, 2 Lyme Regis, 8 Stanpit, 10 White Nothe.
Whinchat - 3 Hengistbury, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Swallow - thousands departed south over Hengistbury.
Whitethroat - 1 Wareham Common.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Wareham Common.

Dotterel at White Nothe © Dave Chown.
Dotterel, White Nothe © Dave Chown

Dotterel at White Nothe © Dave Chown.
Dotterel, White Nothe © Dave Chown

Wheatear at Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell.
Wheatear at Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell