Sunday 8th October 2023

Ruff - 5 Stanpit Marsh
Knot - 4 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Brand's Bay
Golden Plover - 27 Lodmoor RSPB
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Ferrybridge
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Greenshank - 19 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 6 Brand's Bay, 4 Stanpit Marsh
Grey Phalarope - 1 still at Ferrybridge
FORSTER'S TERN  - 1 still regularly seen at Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past West Bay
Spoonbill - 70 Brownsea Island lagoon
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor, seen from postbox
Cattle Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour
Osprey - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 flew south over Portland Bill
Merlin - 1 Keysworth
Firecrest - 5 trapped & ringed at  Durlston CP
Tree Sparrow - 6 viz mig at West Bay

Yesterday at Christchurch Harbour:
Ruff - 1 at Stanpit
Great White Egret - 7 over
Honey-buzzard - 1 over Wick
Yellowhammer - 1 on Crouch Hill

Yellowhammer, yesterday at Crouch Hill © Scott Usher

Grey Phalarope, Ferrybridge © Will Bown

Golden Plover, Lodmoor © Will Bown

Bearded Tit, Lodmoor © Will Bown

Black-tailed Godwit, Holloway's Dock © Clinton Whale