Sightings - Monday 6th February 2012

Barnacle Goose - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery is thought to be a wild bird.
Goosander - 2 Cowards Marsh, 3 over Radipole Lake
Great Northern Diver - 1 Weymouth Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Mudeford Quay, 3 West Bexington
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Great White Egret - 2 at Sutton Bingham are not confirmed as actually being in Dorset.
Grey Plover - 38 Christchurch Harbour
Golden Plover - 4 Portland Bill, 400+ Puddletown
Knot - 1 Portland Bill
Ruff - 2 Cowards Marsh Gate
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Fisherman's Bank Christchurch.  This bird is definitely not the bird recently present at Lyme Regis, which had missing toes.  Please do not park in Argyle Road - use the spaces near Mudeford Cricket Ground.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Jack Snipe - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Iceland Gull - 1 Lodmoor and 1 Radipole Lake are presumably the same bird
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Black Redstart - 1 Tilly Whim
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP
Mealy Redpoll - 1 reported at Holton Heath.

Late news - 
2 Firecrest at Lodmoor yesterday.  
Jack Snipe at Longham Lakes yesterday. 
2 Red Kite at Rushmore on the Wiltshire border yesterday.
A Dunlin photographed in Christchurch Harbour on 2nd Feb was ringed as a juvenile in
Gdansk, Poland in 2011.













Spotted Sandpiper at Christchurch Harbour, 4th Feb © Bob Moore