Sightings - Saturday 14th January 2012

Barnacle Goose - 4 Middlebere with Dark-bellied Brent flock
Ring-necked Duck - 2 drakes on East Lake Chard Junction GP.
Scaup - 1 imm. drake Longham Lakes
Smew - 1 redhead Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Sandspit Hengistbury Hd.
Jack Snipe - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 imm Lyme Regis
Ring-billed Gull - 1 (2nd/W) Radipole Lake
Red-throated Diver - 9 past Hengistbury Hd.
Hen Harrier - 1 male Middlebere
Richard's Pipit - 1 Wyke Regis Bridging Camp
Water Pipit - 1 Priory Marsh Christchurch
Hume's Leaf Warbler - 1 remains near post 13 nr. Littlesea Holiday Camp Fleet
Chiffchaff - 5 Wick Christchurch, 1 Lytchett Bay (ringing recovery first ringed in February 2009 at the same location)

Little Egret - Stanpit Marsh © Maureen Iles