Wednesday 1st May 2024

Cuckoo - 1 heard at Longham Lakes, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Garganey - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Scaup - 3 over Christchurch Harbour (in group a with the Garganey)
Little Ringed Plover - 2 N of Swineham GPs
Sanderling - 10 Brownsea Lagoon, 3 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Whimbrel - 10  Christchurch Harbour, 4 Swineham Point, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Wood Sandpiper - 2 Swineham Point
Greenshank -  5 Lytchett Bay, 1 Brownsea Lagoon
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs
Little Gull - 2cy still on flood N of Swineham GPs, 1 briefly at Brownsea Lagoon
Great Northern Diver - 1 at entrance to Poole Harbour
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Black-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hobby - 1 Swineham Point
Short-eared Owl - 1 near Martinstown
Garden Warbler - 1 Wick
Nightingale - 1 singing on Worget Heath
 
Black Swan, Longham Lakes © Mike Kirby

Reed Warbler, Longham Lakes © Mike Kirby