Sunday 6th October 2024

Eider - 5 Wareham Channel
Goosander - 19 Silverlake
Black-necked Grebe - 1 still Longham Lakes
Avocet  - c30 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Floods
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere. 1 Lytchett Fields
Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields, 3 Brownsea Lagoon
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1st year, from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Black Tern - 1 juv down The Fleet from Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Sth from Ferrybridge
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 65 still Brownsea Lagoon, 3 in channel, Lytchett Bay
Cattle Egret - 11 Wick
Great White Egret - 7 Longham Lakes, 1 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB
Osprey - 2 Newton Bay, Poole Harbour
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Mudeford, 1 Furzey Island, 1 Newton Bay, Poole Harbour
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Avalanche Road Hump, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Culverwell
Firecrest - Portland Bird Observatory
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland Bird Observatory
Red-breasted Flycatcher - 1 adult Male at Portland Bird Observatory, 1 juv. still Culverwell

Yesterday: -

Ruddy Shelduck - 3 Longham Lakes
Golden Plover - 45 Lodmoor RSPB
Kestrel - 9 Pentridge Down
Woodlark - 3 Pentridge Down


Golden Plovers, Lodmoor RSPB © Derek Fowler


Red-breasted Flycatcher juvenile, Culverwell © Steven Carey


Snipe, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman