Sightings - Tuesday 21st February 2017

Barnacle Goose - 11 Swineham
Scaup - 13 Abbotsbury, 1 Poole Park
Eider - 1 Pilot's Point, 1 Mudeford Quay
Long-tailed Duck - 5 Abbotsbury
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 6 Litton Cheney, 3 Bockhampton Cross, 2 Portesham, 2 Abbotsbury
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Middlebere
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Sandbanks
Great Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay
Mediterranean Gull - 350 Abbotsbury
Iceland Gull - 1 first-winter at Abbotsbury then flew off
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Oak Hill/Sugar Hill area
Firecrest - 1 Branksome Chine, 1 Thorncombe Wood
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 West Bexington
Hume's Warbler - 1 Portland (Thumb Lane)
Waxwing  - 6-10 Bere Regis, 4 Corfe Mullen (junction of Hanham & Weymouth Roads)
Rose-coloured Starling - Dorchester (Coburn Road)
Black Redstart - 1 Lulworth Cove
Richard's Pipit - 2 Abbotsbury in field behind café

Waxwings at Corfe Mullen © Paul Corfield