Sightings - Friday 3rd February 2012

Teal - estimated 1100 at Rodden Hive
Ring-Necked Duck - 2 still at Chard Junction
Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes
Great Northern Diver - 1 Shell Bay Studland
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Studland Bay, 3 Weymouth Bay
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Stoborough
Glossy Ibis - 2 at Lodmoor departed eastward.
Spoonbill - 11 Holes Bay
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lytchett Bay
Golden Plover  - 160 Tarrant Rushton, 360 Up Sydling
Knot - 4 Rodden Hive
Sanderling  - 1 Rodden Hive
Long-Billed Dowitcher - 1 Rodden Hive
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 reported Fisherman's Bank Christchurch.  Please do not park in Argyle Road - use the spaces near Mudeford Cricket Ground.
Spotted Redshank - 1 East Marsh Christchurch, 3 Holes Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Hartland Moor
Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor
Black Redstart - 1 Tilly Whim
Brambling - 1 Ferndown

Late news - a Mute Swan found dead at Chapman's Pool yesterday was ringed as a cygnet at Abbotsbury in September 1994