Sightings - Tuesday 20th December 2011

Goosander - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Sturminster Marshall GPs 
Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red-Throated Diver - 22 past Durlston Head in 1 hour; 37 past Portland Bill.
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 Shell Bay, Studland
Cattle Egret - 1 Worgret/East Holme
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 West Bexington
Grey Plover - 22 Stanpit

Knot - 2 Stanpit
Sanderling - 1 Shell Bay, Studland
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Lyme Regis - presumably the return of the recent visitor.
Purple Sandpiper - 15 Lyme Regis, 4 Portland Bill
Ruff - 1 Stanpit

Short-Eared Owl - 2 Wyke Down, Sixpenny Handley 
Richard's Pipit - 1 Wyke Regis/Bridging Camp
Black Redstart - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Tilly Whim
Treecreeper - 1 Hengistbury Head is a good record for the site.
Dipper - 1 Lyme Regis

Hume's Leaf Warbler - 1 Wyke Regis/Bridging Camp
Firecrest - 1+ Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Durlston CP
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wyke Down, Sixpenny Handley

Brambling - 1 Stoborough

Late news - 21 Golden Plover, Sutton Waldron, 19th December.