Thursday 29 April 1999

29/4/99 Portland 1.00pm - 3.30pm, Lodmoor 4pm - 5pm. Sunny with fair NE wind.

Buzzard 2 roadside in Dorset
Little Ringed Plover 1 Lodmoor
Common Sandpiper 1 Lodmoor
Common Tern 2 Lodmoor
Little Tern c.3 The Fleet
Cetti’s Warbler 1 Lodmoor poor views
Sedge Warbler 1 Lodmoor
IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF 1 UK455. Continually in song chit-chit-chit, sweep sweep, chitchitchitchit. Yellow lower mandible very noticeable when singing. Yellow throat, upper breast and undertail coverts, white belly. Cleaner looking than Chiffchaff being brighter more reminiscent of Willow Warbler. Legs brown. Fine bill.

Iberian Chiffchaff at Verne Common Portland (Alan Tate http://www.aabirdpix.com/ )