Sightings - Sunday 8th January 2012

Bewick's Swan - 2 Tincleton
Barnacle Goose - 4 Arne
Velvet Scoter - 3 past Portland Bill
Ring-necked Duck - 2 Chard Junction GPs
Bittern - 1 Hatch Pond
Marsh Harrier - 2 Arne, 1 Wytch Causeway
Hen Harrier - 2 Wyke Down
Merlin - 1 Arne
Woodcock - 1 Arne road, 1 Coombe Heath
Black Guillemot - 1 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Abbotsbury village
Ring-billed Gull - 1 Radipole RSPB
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Arne, 1 Portland Bill, 1 Wyke Down (Sixpenny Handley),
Richard's Pipit - 1 Bridging Camp, The Fleet
Black Redstart - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Bridging Camp, The Fleet
Redwing - 110 at Rushcombe Bottom LNR is a record for the site
Hume's Leaf Warbler - 1 Littlesea/Wyke Regis.
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 PC World, Poole
Firecrest - 8 Abbotsbury Gardens, 1 Arne, 1 PC World, Poole
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wyke Down (Sixpenny Handley)
Bullfinch - 2 at Arne is an unusual record for the site
Snow Bunting - 1 Portland Bill

Avocet ©Tim Balmer














Richard's Pipit and Black Redstart ©Brett Spencer