Sightings - Thursday 10th February 2011

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Baiter, Poole
Eider - 2 females in Studland Bay, 1 female in Brand's Bay
Scaup - 33 at Abbotsbury Swannery
Slavonian Grebe - 7 Studland Bay, 1 Brand's Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 56 Studland Bay, 5 Brand's Bay
Red Kite - 1 over Sherford Bridge
Great Bustard - 1 of the released birds near the Moonfleet Hotel
Purple Sandpiper - 10 at Lyme Regis, 6 near Haven Hotel, Sandbanks
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 still at Poole Park
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ring-billed Gull - 1st winter still present at Poole Park
Waxwing - 1 still at junction of Purewell Cross Road and Normandy Drive, Christchurch
Firecrest - 1 at Durlston
Black Redstart - 1 at Durlston

Red Kite at Sherford Bridge, Wareham Forest © Kevin Lane
Dunlin at Baiter Park, Poole © Kevin Lane