Sunday 15th October 2023

Barnacle Goose - 2 Rodden Hive.
Egyptian Goose - 11 Christchurch Harbour.
Avocet - 2-3 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Lytchett Bay.
Grey Plover - 4 Brands Bay, 1 Goathorn.
Golden Plover - 8 Allington Hill (Bridport).
Ruff - 2 Stanpit.
Knot - 34 Green Island (Poole Harbour).
Greenshank - 1 Brands Bay, 2 Goathorn, 16 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay, 8 Middlebere.
Green Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Bay, 1 Wareham Channel.
Whimbrel - 1 Stanpit.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Poole Harbour mouth.
Great White Egret - 2 Allington Hill (Bridport), 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Poole Harbour mouth, 
1 Middlebere.
Cattle Egret - 2 Wick Hams, 1 Woodsford.
Spoonbill - c50 Brownsea Island, 7 Goathorn.
Osprey - 1 Kimmeridge Bay, 1 Middlebere.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 13 west Poole Harbour.
Red Kite - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Merlin - Up to 4 Poole Harbour, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 Stour Valley LNR, 1 Ulwell, 1 West Bay.
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Shipstal Point/Middlebere.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Ballard Down.
Black Redstart - 1 Rodden Hive, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Wheatear - 1 Arne RSPB, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 1 West Bay.
Ring Ouzel - 2 Ballard Down, 2 Hengistbury Head.
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Rempstone may have been a Siberian Lesser Whitethroat.
Firecrest - 2 Allington Hill (Bridport), 1 Lytchett Bay.
Brambling - 2 Ballard Down, 18 Hengistbury Head, 2 Poole Harbour mouth, 3 West Bay.
Tree Sparrow - 2 Hengistbury Head.

Migration: Birds moving in numbers included Linnet, Goldfinch, Skylark, Siskin and Meadow Pipit.

News from yesterday: Little Bunting, Radde's Warbler and Short-eared Owl at Portland Bill; White-tailed Eagle at Tyneham Cap, Merlin at Kimmeridge.

Greylag Geese, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.















Teal, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.