Sightings - Tuesday 15th January 2012

Whooper Swan - 1, Frome Valley (1km east of East Holme)
Long-tailed Duck - 1, Abbotsbury
Black-necked Grebe - 1, Abbotsbury; 20 Portland Harbour; 7 Poole Harbour (nr. Furzey Is)
Slavonian Grebe - 6, Portland Harbour
Spoonbill - 16, Arne
Bittern - 1, Lodmoor
Black-tailed Godwits - c.3500 in the Avon Valley nr Christchurch
Sanderling - 43 Sandbanks
Purple Sandpiper - 1, Sandbanks
Golden Plover - 3, Portland; 1 Middlebere; c.1500 nr Maiden Castle
Hen Harrier - 1, Arne
Marsh Harrier - 3, Hartland area
Merlin - 1, West Compton; 1 Sunnyside
Short-eared Owl - 1, Hartland area
Water Pipit - 1, Lodmoor
Firecrest - 1, Arne; 1 Lodmoor
Black Redstart - 1, Hengistbury; 1, Poundbury
Snow Bunting - 1, Ferrybridge