Thursday 22nd April 2021

Ring-necked Duck - 2 females still at Longham Lakes
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Silverlake
Ruddy Shelduck - 2 Silverlake
Garganey - pair at Swineham GPs
Swift - 2 Longham Lakes
Stone-curlew - 1 briefly at Cogden beach this morning before flying north
Sanderling - 1 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes
Bar-tailed Godwit - large numbers reported from coastal sites since yesterday afternoon including 332
over Chesil today
Cattle Egret - 14 Abbotsbury Swannery this evening, 2 Upton CP
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head
Arctic Skua - 1 past Hengistbury
Black-throated Diver - 1 past St Alhelm's Head
Glossy Ibis - 1 long staying bird at Christchurch Harbour possibly departed this morning
Red Kite - 2 over Stanpit village, 1 over Lytchett Bay
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Shapwick/Tarrants Keyneston
Whinchat - 1 Wick Hams
Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head

Grey Wagtail, Merley © Roger Peart

 

 

Long-tailed Duck, Silverlake © Geoff Upton





 

Turnstone, Christchurch Harbour © David Wareham