Sightings - Tuesday 17th April 2012

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 28 past Lodmoor, 100 past West Bexington, 32 Mudeford Quay
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Isalnd
Black winged Stilt - Abbotsbury
Little Ringed Plover - 2 in flight over Oakley
Glaucous Gull - 1 Chesil Cove
Great Skua - 32 past Portland
Little Gull - Mudeford Quay
Pied Flycatcher - 1 Portland
Black Redstart - 2 Durlston
Redstart - 1 Durlston
Grasshopper Warbler - Hengistbury Head

Following Sunday's report of an albino starling Judy Jansson reports that there was a bird present in her Canford Heath garden last July, which might be the same bird.


Partial albino starling, Canford Heath, July 2011, © Lars Jansson