Sightings - Friday 4th February 2011

Black Brant - 1 at Ferrybridge
Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 at Ferrybridge
Scaup - 33 at Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - drake off Shipstal Point, Arne
Bittern - 2 at Radipole Lake, 1 at Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 9 at Arne
Marsh Harrier - 1 at Lodmoor
Great Bustard - 2 released birds again near Moonfleet Hotel, The Fleet
Purple Sandpiper - 4 at Portland Bill
Ruff - 1 at Winkton Slurry (SZ173965)
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 still in Poole Park, at the north east corner of the main boating lake
Pomarine Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Durlston
Ring-billed Gull - 1 adult near the visitor centre at Radipole Lake
Waxwing - In Christchurch, up to 45 were at Purewell Doctors Surgery and/or Purewell Cross Road/Normandy Road junction.  In Upton, 8 were at the junction of Meadows Drive and Palmerston Road.  In Weymouth, 4 were at Winchester Close
Black Redstart - singles at Portland Bill and Durlston
Firecrest - 1 at Durlston

Ring-billed Gull at Radipole Lake © Dave Chown

Waxwing at Upton © Bekki Pierce

Grey Partridge recently at Maiden Castle © Kevin Lane