Sightings - Sunday 12th February 2012

Glossy ibis - Wareham, then later at Swineham, also one at Canford Bridge, Wimborne at 8.30am
Spoonbill - 12 Holes Bay
Bittern - Hatch Pond, 1 Radipole
Bewick's swan - 4 Woodsford Bridge, near Tincleton
Smew - 2 Swineham, 4 Longham lakes
Long-tailed duck - 1 off Mudeford
Ring necked duck - 2 Chard Junction
Spotted sandpiper - 1 Stanpit, and photographs taken today at Lyme Regis suggest that the bird is still present there also.
Spotted redshank - 1 Stanpit, 2 Holesbay
Green sandpiper - Merley
Jack snipe - 1 Stanpit, 1 Herbury
Iceland gull - 1 juvenile at Radipole, also 1 Stanpit
Richards pipit - Wyke Regis

Bittern, Radipole © Will Bown
Spotted redshank, Holes Bay © Paul Morton
Golden plover, Sherborne © Paul Dibben
Probable spotted sandpiper (third from right), Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell

Green sandpiper, Merley © David Godfrey