Sightings - Sunday 21 February 2016

Smew - 1 Holes Bay.south of the railway.
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brands Bay,  1 Portland Harbour.
Red-Throated Diver - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Durlston NR.
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay.
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Portland Harbour, 1 Swanage Bay.
Black-Necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay in partial summer plumage, 6 Portland Harbour.
Great White Egret - 1 Studland.
Spoonbill - 2 Brands Bay, 1 Brownsea Island, 7 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Horton Inn, 1 Lytchett Bay, 2 Wareham Channel.
Hen Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel.
Crane - 2 over River Allen at Witchampton.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Swineham.
Greenshank - 5 Brands Bay, 4 Lytchett Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Pools.
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill.
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Holes Bay.
Iceland Gull - 1 first-winter, Brownsea Island.
Waxwing - probable sighting of 3, Verwood.
'Scandinavian' Rock Pipit - 1 Lytchett Pools, 2 Stanpit.
Water Pipit - 3+ Lytchett Pools.
Black Redstart - 1 Balaclava Bay (Portland).
Chiffchaff - 1 Stanpit.

Late news:  Lady Amherst's Pheasant in Belle Vue Road area of Weymouth, Tuesday.

Lady Amherst's Pheasant, Weymouth, Tuesday © Nial Turner