Sightings - Tuesday 11th January 2011

Bewick's Swan - 7 Tincleton
European White-fronted Geese - 19 Abbotsbury Swannery

Pale-bellied Brent Geese - 4 Middlebere

Barnacle Geese - 70+ Abbotsbury Swannery

Scaup - 23 Abbotsbury Swannery

Eider - 4 Studland Bay

Velvet Scoter - 3 off West Bexington car park

Smew - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 West Bexington (on the Mere)

Goosander - 6 Longham Lakes

Red-throated Diver - 7 Portland Bill, singles in Studland Bay and Weymouth Bay

Great Northern Diver - 8-10 Weymouth Bay

Red-necked Grebe - 1 Studland Bay

Slavonian Grebe - singles in Studland Bay and Weymouth Bay

Spoonbill - 7 Middlebere

Marsh Harrier - 2 fem Swineham Point

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Lytchett Bay

Merlin - 1 Rainbow Farm, 1 Portland Bill

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill, 3 Hengistbury Head

Ruff - 4 Longham Lakes

Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 still present at Lodmoor

Short-eared Owl - 1 Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 reported at Upton CP

Waxwing - 7 Portland Bill, 1 Fairmile Road, Christchurch

Black Redstart - 1 Swanage town centre

Firecrest - 1 Arne, 1 Middlebere

Great Grey Shrike - 1 Coombe Heath, 1 Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley


Smew at West Bexington © Mike Morse