Sightings - Wednesday 8th February 2012

Egyptain Goose - 5 east over Abbotsbury
Scaup - 1 imm/drake Longham Lakes, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Smew - 3 redheads Longham Lake
Goosander - 4 Avon Causeway, 1 Longham Lake, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Bramblebush Bay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Shell Bay
Slavonian Grebe - Bramblebush Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 10 Bramblebush Bay, 8 Studland Bay
Spoonbill - 11 Holes Bay (9 in NW & 2 in NE)
Marsh Harrier - 1 imm/male Lytchett Bay, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Hen Harrier - 1 male Avon Causeway
Golden Plover - 30 Abbotsbury 28 Coward's Marsh
Jack Snipe - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Fisherman's Bank
Spotted Redshank - 1 Fisherman's Bank, 1 Holes Bay
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lodmoor
Mediterranean Gull - 440 Ferrybridge, 100 Portland Bill, 12 Middle Beach Studland
Iceland Gull - 1 1st/W Radipole Lake


Bullfinch - Lodmoor © Derek Fowler

Spotted Sandpiper - Fisherman's Bank © Dave Cooke