Sightings - Saturday 19th January 2013

Cold weather movements continued today with large numbers of Fieldfare, Redwing, Skylarks, Lapwing, Golden Plover and smaller numbers of other species being recorded from east to west in the county. I've only given below a small number of the counts reported to give an idea of their distribution.

Whooper Swan - 1 Frome Valley (seen from High Tor)
Pink-footed Goose - Holmebridge
Pale-bellied Brent - 2 Baiter Park (with Db Brent)
Barnacle Goose - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Egyptain Goose - 1 Holmebridge
Scaup - 9 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Goosander - 5 Cowards Marsh
Red-throated Diver - 9 Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 2 Studland off Pilot's Pt, 1 Weymonth Bay.
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Spoonbill - 16 Holes Bay
Red Kite - River Way Christchurch
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Arne, 1 Lorton Valley, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Hen Harrier - 1 male Arne, 1 male Middlebere (pos. same), 1 Wyke Down
Merlin - 1 fem Rylands Barn Fm, 1m West Holme
Golden Plover - 6000 along the Fleet, 344 Hengistbury Hd, 320 Priory Marsh, 300 Lorton Valley, 88 Waterditch Fm, 10 Lytchett Bay.
Lapwing - 400 Waterditch Fm, 350 West Bexington, 175 Bournemouth E.Cliff, 100+ Lorton Valley.
Ruff - 2 nr. Upton Cp, 1 Avon Causeway
Woodcock - 1 Lorton Valley, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Lodmoor
Jack Snipe - 1 Waterditch Fm, 1 Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 5 Holes Bay, 2 Lytchett Bay.
Little Gull - 1 (1stW) Lytchett Bay
 Woodlark - 35 Hengistbury Hd (9 grounded), 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Portland Bill
Skylark - 500+ Lorton Valley, 350+ Lytchett Bay, 200 Waterditch Fm.
Fieldfare - 13200 Hengistbury Hd, 1000+ Durlston CP, 600 Waterditch Fm, 398 Lytchett Bay, 200+ Upton Cp, 150 Lorton Valley
Redwing - 6700 Hengistbury Hd, 400 Lorton Valley, 360 Bournemouth E.Cliff, 120 Lodmoor, 100 Durlston CP.
Linnet - 3000 Ryland's Barn Fm Martinstown.
Brambling - 2 Bournemouth E.Cliff, 1 Holmbridge, 1 Lytchett Bay
Yellowhammer - 100 Ryland's Barn Fm Martinstown
Snow Bunting - 1 West Bexington, 1 Ferrybridge
Corn Bunting - 150+ Ryland's Barn Fm Martinstow, 3 Hengistbury Hd.

Spoonbill - Holes Bay (NE) © Bob Moore