Sightings - Monday 26th March 2012

Barnacle Geese - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Garganey - 2 still on Stour by River Way Recreation Ground, Christchurch
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-Throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Slavonian Grebe - 1 in Summer plumage at West Bexington
Manx Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Abbotsbury. 1 Gussage All Saints, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Puddletown, 1 Shaftesbury, 1 Sherborne, 1 West Bexington, 1 Wyke Down
Hen Harrier - 1 Hengistbury Head
Merlin - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill, 1 near Winterborne Stickland
Hobby - 1 Morden Bog
Golden Plover - 1 Portland Bill
Grey Plover - 1 Lodmoor
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay       
Green Sandpiper - 1 Cowards Marsh, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Lytchett Bay
Water Pipit - 3 Priory Marsh
Rock Pipit - 1 Scandinavian-type Priory Marsh
Tree Pipit - 1 Morden Bog, 1 West Cliffs, Portland
White Wagtail - 2 Portland Bill
House Martin - 1 West Cliffs, Portland, 2 Wyke Regis
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston, 1 Wyke Regis
Firecrest - 2 Portland Bill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still present at Wyke Down.

Late news (all from yesterday) - Little Ringed Plover at Cowards Marsh; Osprey over Briantspuddle; Red Kite over Poundbury.


Red Kite over Sherborne © Paul Dibben


White Wagtail at Portland © Will Bown