Sightings - Tuesday 6th March 2018

Garganey - 1m Winterborne Herrington
Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Rd)
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Hive Point (The Fleet)
Great Northern Diver - 7 Portland Harbour, 3 Weymouth Bay
Spoonbill - 4 Holmebridge, 3 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB), 2 Lodmoor, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB)
Red-necked Grebe - 2 Weymouth Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 20 Portland Harbour, 5 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB)
Merlin - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sanderling - 34 Sandbanks
Purple Sandpiper - 15 Lyme Regis, 1 Sandbanks
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Little Gull - 2 1st/w Lyme Regis
ROSS'S GULL - 1 visited Ferrybridge, Chesil Cove and Radipole RSPB
Short-eared Owl - up to 8 at Portland Bill
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 Chesil Cove
Hawfinch - 8 Lower Bryanston, 1 St Mary's churchyard Wareham

Brambling at Bloxworth © Gerry Shilham




Lesser Redpoll at Bloxworth © Gerry Shilham
Hawfinch at Lower Bryanston  © Michael Coleman
Little Gull at Lyme Regis © Neil Gartshore
Water Rail at Radipole RSPB © Allan Reese
Purple Sandpiper at Sandbanks © Phyl England
 
Red-breasted Merganser at Poole Park © Clive Hargrave