Sightings22/08/2018

Harbour Update – posted 22/08/18

 

Ballard Down and Old Harry – 1 Pied Flycatcher, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Common Redstart, 14 Common Whitethroat, 50+ House Martins, several Sand Martin and Swallow, 10+ Chiffchaff.

Brands Bay – 18 Great Crested Grebe, 138 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Whimbrel, 1 Greenshank, 3 Dunlin.

Middlebere – 5 Grey Plover, 1 Osprey, 1 Green Sandpiper.

Wytch Channel – 3 Greenshank, 4 Spotted Redshank, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 (juv) Osprey, 1 Marsh Harrier

Wareham Channel – 2 Osprey, 1 Marsh Harrier, lots of juv Sandwich and Common Tern

Brownsea Lagoon – 9 Spoonbill, c100 Dunlin, c25 Ringed Plover, c20 Avocet, 1 Greenshank

Lytchett Fields – Aquatic Warbler (reported), 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Ruff, 2 Yellow Wagtail

Lytchett Heath – 1 Common Redstart, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 20 Sedge Warbler, 13 Reed Warbler, 15 Willow Warbler.

Hartland Moor – 2 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear, 7 Yellow Wagtail.

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