Sightings - Thursday 2nd March 2017

Scaup - 9 at Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Road)
Long-tailed Duck - 5 at Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Road)
Slavonian Grebe - 1 at Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Road)
Bittern - 1 departed high N from Swineham in the evening
Cattle Egret - 3 at Abbotsbury Swannery (view from car park)
Great White Egret - 2 at Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 16 at Shipstal Point
Lesser Yellowlegs - still on Lytchett Fields
Short-eared Owl - 3 at Portland Bill
Richard's Pipit - 2 still Abbotsbury (view only from footpath behind cafe)
Waxwing - 4 still Hanham Road (Corfe Mullen), 3 briefly Canford Bottom roundabout by R Stour
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 at West Bexington still
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Slepe Heath, 1 Sugar Hill (Wareham Forest)
Rose-coloured Starling - 1st-winter male still Marie Road, Dorchester


Curlew - Stanpit Marsh © Geoff Norquoy


Curlew - Stanpit Marsh © Joe Murphy


Waxwing - Corfe Mullen © Paul Corfield


Oystercatcher - Stanpit Marsh © Geoff Norquoy


Redshank - Stanpit Marsh © Joe Murphy