Sightings - Saturday 26th January 2013

Bean Goose - 3, Hampreston Floods (seem early am only, and later in Hampshire)
Egyptian Goose - 5, Coward's Marsh
Bewick's Swan - 2, Hampreston Floods
Whooper Swan - 1, Holme Bridge
Smew - 1 (redhead), Longham Lakes
Scaup - 9, Abbotsbury
Long-tailed Duck - 1, Abbotsbury
Goosander - 2, Abbotsbury; 2 West Bexington; 1 Coward's Marsh
Red-throated Diver - 1 Wareham Channel (Swineham); 8 Portland; 2 Hengistbury
Black-throated Diver - 1, Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 1, Abbotsbury Head
Lapwing - high count of c.1000 over Tyneham
Golden Plover - impressive count of 3000+ at Maiden Castle
Spotted Redshank - 1, Stanpit; 1 Holes Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 5, Portland
Ruff - 3, Lodmoor; 2 Coward's Marsh, 9 nr Sopley
Black-tailed Godwit - still in the region of 3000 in the Avon Valley
Red Kite - 1, Langton Matravers
Hoopoe - 1, Hamworthy (elusive; outside 30 Carter's Road late pm)
Water Pipit - 1, Lodmoor
Firecrest - 3, Abbotsbury Gardens
Great Grey Shrike - 1, Sixpenny Handley
Black Redstart -  1, Nothe Fort; 1 Newton's Cove
Snow Bunting - 1, Ferrybridge


Ruff and Lapwing, Lodmoor, Daragh Croxson


Goosander, West Bexington.  Mike Morse