Sightings - Friday 24th February 2012

Barnacle Goose - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery
Eider - 2 fem Mudeford Quay
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Mudeford Quay
Velvet Scoter - 2 off Abbotsbury beach
Red-throated Diver - 13 Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 Mudeford Quay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Mudeford Quay
Bittern - 2 Lodmoor
Glossy Ibis - 1 Radipole Lake
Spoonbill - 13 Arne
Red Kite - 1 Wyke Down
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lodmoor
Purple Sandpiper - 6 from Mudeford Quay
Jack Snipe - 1 Holes Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Short-eared Owl - 1 Hartland Moor
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh
White Wagtail - 1 Barleycrates Portland
Black Redstart - 3 Heylands Portland
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit Marsh (by golf course)
Bearded Tit - 2 Hengistbury (HHC reed bed)
Snow Bunting - Hengistbury Hd.

Late news for 23rd February - 1 male Continental Stonechat (rubicola) Barleycrates Portland

Spotted Redshank - Holes Bay © Peter ??