Thursday 3rd October 2024

Goosander -  1 on R Frome at Woodsford
Common or Pallid Swift - 1 Wick Fields
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes (South Lake)
Common Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Greenshank -  1 Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 27 left Pergins Island roost in Holes Bay this morning
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Goshawk - 1  juvenile seen briefly in Poole Harbour north
Pallid Harrier - a probable ringtail over Hengistbury this morning
Red Kite - 6 Badbury Rings
Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 trapped & ringed at Careys Secret Garden, 1 Moonfleet
Firecrest - 4 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP, 3+ at Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Cogden Beach
Ring Ouzel - 1 Ballard Down this morning, 1 Hengistbury
Yellow Wagtail - 2 Ballard Down
Hawfinch - 1 over PBO

Vis mig at West Bay included -  a ticking Bunting most resembling Rustic and a possible Turtle Dove. Also a Red Kite, Redwing, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Woodlark, 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jays, 1000 Linnets, 400 Swallows, 1900 House Martins and 140 Meadow Pipits.

Yesterday : a  Redwing over Litton Cheney and 6 over Poole Harbour

Kestrel, Woodville © John Bishop

 
Great White Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown