Sightings - Tuesday 27th February 2018

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Ferrybridge (with D.b.Brent)
Mandarin - 1 drake Longham lakes
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red-throated Diver - 2 West Bexington
Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 1 Arne RSPB (Coombe Heath), 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 5 Lytchett Bay, 4 ArneRSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Red Kite - 1 West Bexington
Hen Harrier - 3 Poole Harbour
Golden Plover - 100 West Bexington, 30 nr. Maiden Castle by Dorchester Rd, 14 Portland Bill, 1 Lodmoor
STILT SANDPIPER - 1 Stanpit Marsh (Fisherman's Walk) & on Coward's Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 2 Holes Bay
ROSS'S GULL - 1ad Radipole RSPB (12:30- 13:10approx) & Bowleaze Cove (approx 15:45 - 16:30hrs).
Glaucous Gull - 1 3cy Abbotsbury Swannery
Merlin - 1 fem Lytchett Bay
Firecrest - 1 Southwell
Water Pipit - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Hawfinch - 8 Lower Bryanston, 2 Milborne St. Andrew, 2 Iwerne Minster

Female Hawfinch - Milborne St. Andrew © Mike Coleman 





















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