Sightings - Saturday 25th February 2012

Ring-Necked Duck - 1 Chard Junction GPs, 1 Forde Abbey
Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes
Long-Tailed Duck - 1 Mudeford Quay
Goosander - 1 Longham Lakes
Smew - 2 Longham Lakes
Bittern - 3 Hatch Pond
Hen Harrier - 1 Wyke Down
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Poole Harbour.
Merlin - 1 Wyke Down
Grey Plover - 34 Christchurch Harbour
Golden Plover  - 50+ Wyke Down
Sanderling - 41 Studland Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 2 Chard Junction GPs
Mediterranean Gull - 63 past Portland Bill, 180+ Weymouth Bay
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 1 Canford Heath
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wyke Down

Late news - 700+ Mediterranean Gull in Portland Harbour in early February is a county record.



Stock Dove, Lodmoor, 24th Feb © Daragh Croxson
Sanderling, Studland Bay © Simon Johnson

Scaup, Longham Lakes © Alan Pearce