Sightings - Tuesday 8th May 2012

Garganey - 1 Swineham
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 2 Weymouth Bay
Spoonbill - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Marsh Harrier - 1 over Portland Bill
Honey Buzzard - 1 over Stanpit
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit
Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 off Southbourne
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Weymouth, probably the same bird seen earlier at Portland Bill
Short-eared Owl - 3 Wyke Down, 1 Swineham
Blue-headed(?) Wagtail - 1 at Longham Lakes, though could be a different subspecies
Nightingale - 1 Portland Bill
Ring Ouzel - 1 still at Bulbarrow
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston
Pied Flycatcher - 1 female at Durlston
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Lorton Meadows

Wimbrel at Lodmoor © Daragh Croxon

Ring-necked Parakeet in a Weymouth garden © Jill Rendell