Sightings - Wednesday 12th January 2011

Bewick's Swan - 7 near Tincleton
Greylag Goose - 1 at Longham Lakes bearing a Swedish neck-ring

Barnacle Geese - flock still on private land near Lytchett Bay

Scaup - 23 Abbotsbury Swannery

Smew - 1 Longham Lakes

Goosander - 6 Longham Lakes, 1 Portland Harbour

Red-throated Diver - 3 Durlston CP

Black-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head

Great Northern Diver - 3 Weymouth Bay

Bittern - 1 Hampreston Fields, Longham
Red Kite - 1 over Longham

Purple Sandpiper - 3 Mudeford Quay

Ruff - 12 Priory Marsh

Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 Lodmoor

Waxwing - 11 Easton Portland, yesterday 4-5 in a Verwood garden

Black Redstart - 1 Swanage, near Seagull Cafe

Long-billed Dowitcher at Lodmoor © Paul Baker