Sunday 5th May 2024

Eider - 4 off Hengistbury Head.
Cuckoo - 1 Longham Lakes, 2 Stanpit including a hepatic female.
Avocet - 3 Stanpit.
Whimbrel - 3 past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge, 5 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Lytchett Bay.
Sanderling - 17 past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Greenshank - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Black Tern - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Fulmar - 1 passed through Christchurch Harbour.
Manx Shearwater - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Great White Egret - 1 Hampreston fields, 2 Lytchett Bay.
Pomarine Skua - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge, 1 E past Kimmeridge, 1 E past 
            St Aldhelm's Head, 1 E past Hengistbury Head - presumably all the same bird.
Arctic Skua - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Great Northern Diver - 1 W past Hengistbury Head.
Red-throated Diver - 2 past Hengistbury Head.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge (Swyre Head).
Osprey - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Hobby - 1 E past Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge, 
1 Kimmeridge (Swyre Head).
Barn Owl - 1 Wick, very unusual in the area.
Yellow Wagtail - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Hengistbury Head
Garden Warbler - 2 Stanpit.


Shelduck, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale