Sightings - Friday 16th March 2012

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 4 flew from Mudeford Quay to Stanpit Bight
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Mudeford Quay
Velvet Scoter - 2 off West Bexington
Great Northern Diver - 1 Weymouth Bay
Cattle Egret - 1 still near Kingston Maurward, 1 on bank of the Frome near Wareham
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Glossy Ibis - 2 Radipole Lake from North Hide
Black Guillemot - 1 off Portland Bill
Merlin - 1 Durlston
Purple Sandpiper - 18 Mudeford Quay
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor
Sand Martin - 11 Lodmoor
Black Redstart - 1 Sherborne, 1 West Bexington, 1 Kimmeridge, 1 Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head
Wheatear - 40 Portland Bill, 8 Christchurch Harbour area,  5 Kimmeridge, 3 Peveril Point, 2 on the Cobb at Lyme Regis,  2 West Bexington, 1 Winspit
Hume’s Warbler - 1 still near Littlesea Holiday Camp Wyke Regis
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Hengistbury
Snow Bunting - 1 by southern end of Beach Huts on Hengistbury Head


Spoonbill at Lodmoor © Daragh Croxson