Sightings - Saturday 17th March 2012

Velvet Scoter - 3 off West Bexington
Great Northern Diver - 3 Weymouth Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 Mudeford Quay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Cattle Egret - 1 still near Kingston Maurward
Glossy Ibis - 2 Radipole Lake from North Hide
Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor
Hen Harrier - 1 male at Wyke Down
Merlin - 1 across Wareham to Swanage Road
Purple Sandpiper - at least 30 from Mudeford Quay
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Fisherman's Bank
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Little Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay
Iceland Gull - 2nd winter at Radipole Lake
Common Tern - 1 Longham Lakes
Puffin - 2 Portland Bill
Cuckoo - 1 reported seen from a moving car near Weymouth, is one of the earliest Dorset records
Swallow -1 Hengistbury Head
Richard's Pipit - 1 still near the Bridging Camp, Wyke Regis
Black Redstart - 1 Bridging Camp, Wyke Regis
Hume’s Warbler - 1 still near Littlesea Holiday Camp Wyke Regis
Willow Warbler - 1 Lodmoor
Firecrest - 10 Abbotsbury Gardens, 1 Portland Bill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wyke Down

Great Grey Shrike at Wyke Down © Simon Kidner