Sightings - Tuesday 19th November 2013

Scaup - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Poole Hbr.
Surf Scoter - 1 imm. again in Brand's Bay
Goosander - 9 Coward's Marsh
Red-throated Diver - 3 off West Bexington
Great Northern Diver - 2 Weymouth Bay, 1 Poole Hbr.
Spoonbill - 20+ Shipstal Pt. Poole Hbr.
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Hengistbury Hd.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Swallow - 2 Portland Bill 
Black Redstart - singles at Hengistbury Hd, Durlston CP, Portland Bill & Nothe Gardens.
Snow Bunting - 2 West Bexington

1 of 15 Purple Sandpiper -Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Crossbill - Wareham Forest © Will Bown

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Sightings - Monday 18th November 2013

Scaup - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay/Goathorn
Black-Throated Diver - 1 Studland
Hen Harrier - 2 Hartland Moor/Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Middlebere
Merlin - 1 Durlston
Grey Plover - 21 Stanpit
Black-Tailed Godwit - 1160 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Woodcock - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 1 Durlston, 2 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head
Mediterranean Gull - 1000+ reported from The Fleet
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Richard's Pipit - 1 at a private site near Abbotsbury
Water Pipit - 1 Priory Marsh
White Wagtail - 1 Priory Marsh
Swallow - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
Wheatear - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Portland (Perryfields)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Warren Hill
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 2 Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Portland (Pennsylvania Castle)
Snow Bunting - 2 West Bexington

Late news:  Bittern and 2 Water Pipit at Radipole yesterday.
Snow Bunting at West Bexington © Mike Morse
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Sightings - Sunday 17th November 2013

Black Brant - 2 Ferrybridge
SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay/Redhorn Quay
Great Northern Diver - 2 Christchurch Hbr, 3 Ferrybridge, 3 Studland
Black-Throated Diver - 1 Studland
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 Portland Hbr
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 Portland Bill
Hen Harrier - 1-2 Middlebere
Grey Plover - 4 Brands Bay
Knot - 4 Brands Bay
Woodcock - 1 Rushcombe Bottom
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge
Swallow - 2 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Hengistbury Head, 3 Portland Bill
Wheatear - 1 Durlston Head
Firecrest - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Portland Bill
Crossbill - 12+ Morden Bog, 12 Throop Heath
Snow Bunting - 2 West Bexington
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Sightings - Saturday 16th November 2013

Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 1 Portland Harbour
SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay/Brownsea Island
Velvet Scoter - 2 Hengistbury Head
Egyptian Goose - 7 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 1 Brands Bay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Red Kite - 2 Ashmore
Hen Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel, 2 Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Langton Matravers
Starling - 1000+ north over Portland Bill
Twite - 1 at a private site near Abbotsbury Swannery
Lapland Bunting - 1 at a private site near Abbotsbury Swannery

Late news:  Hen Harrier - 2 Middlebere on Thursday

Black Redstart at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Hen Harrier at Middlebere on Thursday © Dave Hill

Hen Harrier at Middlebere on Thursday © Dave Hill

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Sightings - Friday 15th November 2013

Pale-bellied Brent - 3 The Fleet
Black Brant - 1 The Fleet
SURF SCOTER - 1 imm. Brand's Bay 
Goosander - 2 past West Bexington
Red-throated Diver - West Bexington
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Durlston CP.
Merlin - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Golden Plover - 130 Monkeys Jump (Maiden Castle)
Caspian Gull - 1 1st/w Avon Causeway (flying into pig field)
Woodpigeon - 2000 over Lytchett Minster
Richard's Pipit - 1 Portland Bill (field by Obs)
Hawfinch - 1 over West Bay
Lapland Bunting - 1 over West Bay
Snow Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Snow Bunting Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Thursday 14th November 2013

Red Kite - 5 Sutton Waldron
Hen Harrier - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Merlin - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Upwey
Sandwich Tern - 2 Studland
Short-Eared Owl - 2 Portland Bill
Wood Pigeon - 45000 west over Christchurch Harbour
Richard's Pipit - 1 Portland Bill
Swallow - 1 Portland Bill, 2 Studland
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 2 Portland Bill, 1 Winspit
Firecrest - 3+ Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill

Kingfisher ringed yesterday at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Kestrel at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Wednesday 13th November 2013

Black Brant - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Scaup - 3 Lodmoor
Common Scoter - 100+ Hengistbury Hd, 7 Studland Bay
SURF SCOTER - 1 imm. Brand's Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 West Bexington
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Studland Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 West Bexington
Black-necked Grebe - 33 Poole Hbr/Studland Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Merlin - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Little Gull - 3 Chesil Cove
Sandwich Tern - 1 Poole Hbr. mouth.
Stock Dove - 72 Lytchett Bay (site record)
Woodpigeon - 3800+ Lytchett Bay, 3200 over Stanpit Marsh
Skylark - 72 Hengistbury Hd.
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Jackdaw - 130 Hengistbury Hd.
Starling - 2000 in off the sea Portland Bill, 55 Lytchett Bay.
 
Dartford Warbler- Wareham Forest © Will Bown

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Sightings - Tuesday 12th November 2013

Common Scoter - 100 on sea Hengistbury  Hd.
SURF SCOTER - 1 imm. Brand's Bay
Goosander - 1 redhead Sturminster Marshall GP.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Mudeford Quay
Black-necked Grebe - 15 Studland Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Pirates Cove (Fleet), 1 Mudeford Quay.
Merlin - 1 Durlston CP, 1 over the Batters Hengistury Hd.
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Little Gull - 20 Weymouth Bay
Short-eared Owl - 1 Durlston CP.
Black Redstart - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 1 m. Winspit, 1 Durlston CP.
Snow Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Hd by Groyne S1.

A little Vis Mig today came mainly from Durlston CP.
Woodlark - 2 Durlston CP.
Sand Martin - 1 Durlston CP (latest on record for site)
Swallow - 7 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
House Martin - 3 Durlston CP.
Blackbird - 50 Durlston CP.
Fieldfare - 6 Durlston CP.
Song Thrush - 14 Durlston CP.
Redwing - 250 Kingcombe, 202 Lytchett Bay, 102 Durlston CP.
Firecrest - 2 Durlston CP.
Chaffinch - 320 Durlston CP.
Brambling - 11Durlston CP.
Goldfinch - 2070 Durlston CP.
Siskin - 112 Durlston CP.
Linnet -  375 Durlston CP.

 
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Sightings - Monday 11th November 2013

A major movement of Little Gulls took place today.

Common Scoter - 95 past Durlston
Goosander - 2 through Weymouth Bay, 4 Mudeford Quay
Great Northern Diver - 3 Shell Bay, 2 Mudeford Quay
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill, 2 past Durlston
Grey Phalarope - 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 13 Pilot's Point
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Mudeford Quay
Great Skua - 44 past Portland Bill, 1 Weymouth Bay
Arctic Skua - 13 past Portland Bill, 2 over Ferrybridge
Pomarine Skua - 4 past Portland Bill
Kittiwake - 170 past Durlston
Little Gull - 1,138 past Portland Bill  (10 times the previous day record) including a single flock of 200, 320 at Ferrybridge, 66 through Weymouth Bay, 65 at Chesil Cove, 50 past Branksome Chine
Arctic Tern - 1 Portland Harbour
Little Auk - 1 Chesil Cove
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill




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Sightings - Sunday 10th November 2013

SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay
Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury
Pintail - 140 Rodden Hive
Red-breasted Merganser - 92 Brands Bay
Goosander  - 4 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 over Highcliffe and Poole, 2 over Rodden Hive
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
Spoonbill - 27 Arne, 10 Holes Bay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 21 Studland Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Brands Bay
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay, 3 Studland Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 Shell Bay
Black-throated Diver - 1 Fitzworth Point Poole Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Lyme Regis Cobb
Wood Pigeon - 72,665 over Poole; 32,800 over Christchurch Harbour; 4500 Boyshill
Black Redstart - 1 Poundbury, 4 Portland Bill, 1 Abbotsbury, 1 Portesham
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Weston Portland
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Langton Matravers
Firecrest - 8 Abbotsbury Gardens, 1 Portland Bill, 1 ringed in a garden in Broadstone, 1 PC World Drain
Hawfinch - 3 over Durlston

Reed Bunting at Hengistbury Head copyright Joe Murphy
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Sightings - Saturday 9th November 2013

SURF SCOTER - 1 Brand's Bay
Common Scoter - 40 off Hengistbury Head
Merlin - 1 Morden Bog
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 2 Brand's Bay
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Wood Pigeon - 20000 over Christchurch Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest -  1 Portland Obs, 2 Hengistbury Head
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Sightings - Friday 8th November 2013

SURF SCOTER - 1 Brand's Bay
Merlin - 1 Durlston
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Durlston
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill, 2 past Hengistbury Head
Swallow - 1 over Durlston
Black Redstart -  4 Portland, 2 Durlston
Northern Wheatear - 1 Durlston
Firecrest - 3 Durlston, 2 Portland, 1 Hengistbury Head
Goldfinch - 1585 over Durlston
Hawfinch - 1 over Durlston
Crossbills - 4 over Durlston


Surf Scoter copyright Steve Smith

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Sightings - Thursday 7th November 2013

Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Surf Scoter - 1 Brands Bay
Hen Harrier - Middlebere
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Barry Road, Broadstone
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Avalanche Road
Dusky Warbler - 1Portland
Black Redstart - 1 Bridging camp, Wyke Regis; 1 Christchurch harbour


Surf scoter, Poole Harbour (c) Paul Morton

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Sightings - Wednesday 6th November 2013

Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland
Sooty Searwater - 1 Portland
Great Northern Diver - 5 Weymouth Bay; 1 Mudeford
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Leach's  Petrel -  I Mudeford
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 24 Arne
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Sandsfoot Castle
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Sightings - Tuesday 5th November 2013

Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Black-throated Diver - Hengistbury Head
Red-throated Diver - Hengistbury Head
Merlin - 1 Milborne St Andrew; 1 Durlston
Firecrest - 1 Upton CP
Woodlark -1 Ferrybridge
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Durlson (heard)
Swallow - 3 Durlston

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Sightings - Monday 4th November 2013

Spoonbill - 26 Poole Harbour
Sabine's Gull - 1 Cogden Beach
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Poole harbour
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury
Merlin - 1 Cogden beach
Osprey - 1 Weymouth 
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 North Hide, Radipole; 1 Avalanche Road hump; 1 Abbotsbury; 1 Durlston
Firecrest - 3 Abbotsbury
Black Redstart - 2 Ferndown; 1 Hengistbury Head


Black redstart, Hengistbury Head, (c) Joe Murphy






























































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Sightings - Sunday 3rd November 2013

Velvet Scoter - 2 past Hengistbury Head
Red-necked Grebe - 1 off Portland Castle
Merlin - 1 Ferrybridge
Great Skua - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Sabine's Gull - 1 commuting between Chesil Cove and Cogden Beach
Roseate Tern - 1 Avon Beach/Mudeford Quay
Arctic Tern - 1 juvenile still at Ferrybridge
Black Redstart - 2 Motcombe (near Shaftesbury), 1 Chesil Cove
 
Cormorant at Iford Bridge © Clinton Whale
Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Andy Grinter
 
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Sightings - Saturday 2nd November 2013

Black Brant - 2 Ferrybridge
Mandarin Duck - 1 drake Lodmoor
Red-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Hen Harrier - 2 males Wareham at mouth of R. Frome
Jack Snipe - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Pomarine Skua - 1 Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 2 Portland Bill, 1 over Ferrybridge
Sabine's Gull - 1 Cogden Beach
Mediterranean Gull - 450 in Weymouth Bay
Little Gull - 1 past Chesil Cove
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Arctic Tern - 1 Ferrybridge
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Black Redstart - 2 Reap Lane (Portland)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed at Durlston CP, 1 Winspit Valley
Wheatear - 1 Ferrybridge
Firecrest - 10 Abbotsbury Gardens, 2 Winspit Valley, 2 Durlston CP, at least 1 Brownsea Island

Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Steven Carey
 
Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Chris & Joanne Courtaux
 
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Sightings - Friday 1st November 2013

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Red-necked Grebe - 1 still in Portland Harbour
Spoonbill - 3 Holes Bay
Merlin - 1 Portland Bill
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Sabine's Gull - 1 Cogden Beach (photo below)
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Black Redstart -  2 Verne Prison (Portland), 1 Portland Bill, 1 Durlston, 1 West Lulworth, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wheatear - 1 West Bexington
Firecrest - 4 Durlston, 1 Portland

Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Mike Morse
 
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Sightings - Thursday 31st October 2013

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Long-tailed Duck - 1 still at Lodmoor
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Durlston
Red-necked Grebe - 1 still in Portland Harbour
Spoonbill - 4 Holes Bay
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lodmoor, 2 Arne Moors
Merlin - 1 Durlston
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Portland Bill
Jack Snipe - 1 West Bexington
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Little Gull - 1 past Durlston
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Black Redstart - 4 Portland Bill, 2 Durlston, 2 Poundbury (and another nearby at Rainbarrow Farm), 1 Ferndown
Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Lodmoor CP, 1 Abbotsbury
Firecrest - 4 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill

Long-tailed Duck at Lodmoor © Phyl England
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Sightings - Wednesday 30th October 2013

Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 26 Arne
Marsh Harrier - 1 Swineham Pt.
Hen Harrier - 1 Swineham Pt.
Merlin - 1 Portland Bill
Purple Sandpiper - 3 Portland Bill
Green Sandpiper - 11 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 14 Brownsea Is, 1 Lytchett Bay
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Swineham Pt.
Black Redstart - 1 Peverel Pt. Swanage, 1 Blacknor Portland.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Brambling - 8 Portland Bill

Redshank eating crab- Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Tuesday 29th October 2013

Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Hbr.
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Hbr.
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Portland Bill
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 Radipole
Hen Harrier - 1 ad, 1 juv Warehan Channel, 1 Lytchett Bay
Merlin - 2 Portland Bill, 2 fem Hartland Moor, 1 Middlebere, 1 Durlston CP.
Golden Plover - 200 Monkeys Jump
Common Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor 
Green Sandpiper - 8 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 15 Brownsea Island
Sabine's Gull - 1 Chesil Cove
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge
Arctic Tern - 1 Ferrybridge
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 2 Lytchett Bay
Black Redstart - 1 St, Leonard's
Wheatear - 1 Monkey's Jump
Ring Ouzel - 1 Winspit, 1 Portland Bill
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Lodmoor

Vis mig 
Stock Dove - 106 Durlston CP.
Woodpigeon - c600 Portland Bill, 40 Durlston CP.
Skylark - 20 Durlston CP.
Meadow Pipit - 68 Durlston CP
Fieldfare - 7 Durlston CP
Redwing - 35 Durlston CP
Swallow - 20, Portland Bill, 4 Durlston CP.
Chaffinch - c150 Portland Bill, 820 Durlston CP.
Goldfinch - c600 Portland Bill, 490 Durlston CP
Linnet - c300 Portland Bill, 340 Durlston CP.
Lesser Redpoll - 8 Durlston CP.

Spotted Redshank - Brownsea Island © John Hammick

Peregrine - Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Monday 28th October 2013

Black Brant - 1 Poole Harbour mouth
Surf Scoter - 1 Chesil Cove
Long-Tailed Duck - 1 Portland Castle
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 Portland Castle
Storm Petrel - 6 Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Swineham
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay
Merlin - 1 Durlston, 1 Swineham
Grey Phalarope - 1 Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 4 Portland Bill
Yellow-Legged Gull - 7 Middlebere, 1 Portland Bill Common
Arctic Tern - 1 Ferrybridge
Roseate Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Grey Plover - 1 Ferrybridge
Ruff - 1 Bestwall
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 5 Brownsea Island
Greenshank - 1 Swineham
Jack Snipe - 1 Wick
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Portland Castle
Pallas's Warbler - 1 briefly Southwell
Firecrest - 1 Durlston
Shoveler at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Sunday 27th October 2013

Leach's Petrel - 1 Abbotsbury, 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland Bill
Merlin - 1 Hengistbury Head spit.
Arctic Skua - 1 Chesil Cove, 4 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 12+ Portland Bill
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Swineham GPs
Sabine's Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Coastguard/West Bexington, 1 Chesil Cove
Little Gull - 1 Chesil Cove
Arctic Tern - 1 Ferrybridge
Roseate Tern - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 1 Swineham GPs, 1 Stanpit
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland (Reap Lane)
Ring Ouzel - 4 Portland (Penn's Weare undercliff)
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head

Avocets at Brownsea Island © Clinton Whale

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Sightings - Saturday 26th October 2013

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Garganey - 1 Lodmoor
Black-Throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Leach's Petrel - 1 Chesil Cove
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Hen Harrier - 1 Arne Moors
Marsh Harrier - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Lodmoor
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Sabine's Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Coastguard/West Bexington, 1 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 West Bexington
Arctic Tern - 1 Ferrybridge
Golden Plover - 30+ Milborne St Andrew
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Little Stint - 2 Brownsea Is
Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Is
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit
Black Redstart - 4 Portland Castle
Firecrest - 12+ Abbotsbury Gdns, 4+ Arne car park, 1 Brownsea Is, 3 Portland (Pennsylvania Castle)
Brambling - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Portland (Pennsylvania Castle)

Late News:  Jack Snipe at Sunnyside Farm yesterday.

Sabine's Gull at West Bexington © Mike Morse

Peregrine with Starling at Hengistbury Head © Joseph Murphy

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Sightings - Friday 25th October 2013

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Scaup - 1 juvenile still at Swineham GPs, 1 female at Radipole
Velvet Scoter - 1 from Mudeford Quay
Merlin - 1 Durlston, 1 Maiden Castle
Arctic Skua - 1 past Durlston
Great Skua - 1 past Durlston
Little Gull - 1 Durlston
Roseate Tern - 1 adult Mudeford Quay
Arctic Tern - 1 juvenile still at Ferrybridge, 1 Mudeford Quay
PALLID SWIFT - 1 again in Stanpit/Two Riversmeet area of Christchurch but reported taken by Sparrowhawk early afternoon, RIP. (See www.chog.org.uk for more photos)
Ring Ouzel - 2 Durlston, 1 West Bexington, 1 still at Swineham GPs, 1 Portland Top Fields
Redwing - 2065 over Durlston
Garden Warbler - 1 Durlston
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Ringstead
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still at Portland Bird Observatory, 1 Pennsylvania Castle
Firecrest - 6+ Pennsylvania Castle area, 2 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Snow Bunting - 1 between St. Aldhelm's Head and Chapman's Pool

Pallid Swift at Christchurch © Brett Spencer
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Sightings - Thursday 25th October 2013

Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 juvenile at Swineham GPs
Bittern - 1 (possibly 2) at Lodmoor 
Merlin - 2 Portland
Hobby - 1 Ringstead/White Nothe
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor
Arctic Tern -1 juvenile still at Ferrybridge
Hoopoe - 1 flew over Poole Harbour entrance towards Sandbanks
Ring Ouzel - 2 Windmills area on Portland, 1 still at Swineham GPs, 1 Durlston
PALLID SWIFT - 1 over Stanpit/Two Riversmeet area of Christchurch
Pallas's Warbler - 1 at  Studland (South Beach)
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed at Portland Bird Observatory
Garden Warbler - 1 Durlston, 1 Ringstead/White Nothe
Firecrest - 5 Studland (South Beach), 3 Durlston
Tree Sparrow - 2 along West Cliffs, Portland, 1 over Durlston
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Sightings - Wednesday 23rd October 2013

Black Brant - 2 at Ferrybridge
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Studland Bay
Storm-petrel - 1 Chesil Cove
Bittern - 1 again at Lodmoor 
Spoonbill - 27 at Shipstal Point, Arne
Merlin - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Blacknor
Spotted Redshank - 7 Brownsea Island
Grey Phalarope - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Skua - 4 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Chesil Cove
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Arctic Tern -1 Ferrybridge
Ring Ouzel - 1 Swineham GPs

Black Brant at Ferrybridge © Brett Spencer






Sanderling at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Spoonbills at Arne © John Hammick

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Sightings - Tuesday 22nd October 2013

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Garganey - 1 still at Radipole
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Weymouth Esplanade
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor 
Great White Egret - 1 off Shipstal Point, Arne
Spoonbill - 28 at Shipstal Point, Arne
Hen Harrier - 1 male Poole Harbour
Merlin - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Poole Harbour
Pomerine Skua - 1 reported past Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 off Branksome
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Woodlark - 2 over Mudeford Quay
Ring Ouzel - 1 Stanpit

Red-brested Merganser at Ferrybridge © Roger Green


Garganey at Radipole Lake © Dave Chown
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Sightings - Monday 21st October 2013

Garganey - 1 Radipole
Balearic Shearwater - 5 Portland Bill, 1 Durlston
Spoonbill - 26 Arne
Merlin - 2 Portland Bill, 1 Durlston, 1 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 3 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Arctic Skua - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Mudeford Quay
Great Skua - 3 Portland Bill, 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Durlston
Little Gull - 2 Durlston, 1 Chesil Cove
Firecrest - 1 Brownsea Island

Dipper at Lyme Regis © Brett Spencer





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Sightings - Sunday 20th October 2013

Spotted Redshank - 5 Middlebere; 6 Upton CP
Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Briantspuddle
Firecrest - 1 Portland


Black-tailed godwit, Lodmoor (c) Andrew Maynard


Great grey shrike, Briantspuddle (c) Jayson Grove

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