Sightings - Monday 12th February 2018.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Moonfleet.
Black Brant - 1 Moonfleet.
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Spoonbill - 5 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Ruff - 5 Lodmoor RSPB.
Sanderling - 29 North Haven.
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Holes Bay.
Jack Snipe - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Pomarine Skua - 1 off Durlston.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Holes Bay.
Caspian Gull - 1 2cy Weymouth Bay.
Glaucous Gull - 1 2w/3cy West Bexington.
Sandwich Tern - 3 Middle Beach, 2 Brand's Bay.
Short-eared Owl - 3 Top Fields, Portland, 1 Portland Bill.
Black Redstart - 1 Swanage.
Firecrest - 3 Pennsylvania Wood, 1 Highcliffe Castle, 1 Norden Sewage Works, 1 Portland Bill.
Marsh Tit - 1 Norden Sewage Works.
Hawfinch - 1 Norden Sewage Works.


The ringed bird below was also here on 17/01/18 and was ringed in The Netherlands
on 12/05/14.
Spoonbills – Lodmoor RSPB ©Derek Fowler.
Spoonbills – Lodmoor RSPB ©Derek Fowler.

Black=tailed Godwit – Wick Fields ©Joe Murphy.