Sightings - Monday 28th March 2016

Mandarin Duck - 2 on the Stour at Wimborne.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 on Lodmoor itself is extremely unusual for the site.
Manx Shearwater - 66 Portland Bill.
Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere.including a bird ringed in Denmark.
Peregrine - a live webcam of a Bournemouth nest can be seen here: http://www.bournemouthperegrines.org.uk/
Merlin - 1 came in off the sea at Mudeford Quay.
Purple Sandpiper - 3 Portland Bill.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Holton Lee.
Great Skua - 2 Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Iceland Gull - 1 past Durlston Head.
Lesser Black-Backed Gull - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Common Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay.
Sandwich Tern - 3 Hengistbury Head, 7 Portland Bill.
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill.
House Martin - 1 Holton Lee.
Sand Martin - 2 in off the sea at Durlston NR.
Ring-Necked Parakeet - 3 Durlston NR
White Wagtail - 1 Portland Bill.
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor (Portland).
Pallas's Warbler - 1 Portesham old railway track.
Firecrest - 1 Durlston NR, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill.

Late news:  A Sand Martin was over Holton Lee yesterday and another, with a Swallow, at Durlston NR on 24th March.

Water Pipit at Lytchett Pools on Saturday © Ian Ballam

Slavonian Grebe on Lodmoor © Daragh Croxson