Sightings - Friday 22nd March 2013

Garganey - 2 Portland Bill
Shoveler - 38 Hengistbury/Mudeford, 20 Portland Bill
Velvet Scoter - 2 Mudeford Quay
Mandarin Duck - 3 drakes at Thorncombe
Golden Pheasant - 1 Fordington
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 in breeding plumage off Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor
Marsh Harrier - 1 Lodmoor
Merlin - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Mudeford Quay, 1 Winspit
Arctic Skua - 2 Hengistbury Head
Common Tern - 1 Chesil Beach/The Fleet
Grey Plover - 63 past Hengistbuy/Mudeford
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay
Meadow Pipit - 2200+ Hengistbury Head, c. 1000 Portland Bill
Rock Pipit - 1 littoralis still at Stanpit
Wheatear - 3 Abbotsbury Beach, 1 Holes Bay, 2 Portland (Osprey Quay), 40 Portland Bill, 3 Stanpit, 1 The Fleet (Bridging Camp)
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Swallow - 1 Ferrybridge
Great Tit - 1 partially melanistic individual at Winspit had an all-black head.