Sightings - Friday 11th January 2013

Pink-Footed Goose - 1 Holmebridge
Scaup - 10 Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 1 Stanpit, 2 West Holme
Goldeneye - 5 Holes Bay
Long-Tailed Duck - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 5+ in western Poole Harbour           
Hen Harrier - 2+ western Poole Harbour
Merlin - 1 Maiden Castle
Yellow-Legged Gull - 4 on roof of Kerry Foods, Holes Bay
Sandwich Tern - 1 Baiter
Golden Plover - 500+ at Maiden Castle
Sanderling - 29 Sandbanks
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Common Sandpiper - 2 Holes Bay/PC World drain
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Holton Heath/Arne, 2 Wyke Down
Waxwing - 20 Broadstone, 5 Guys Marsh (Shaftesbury), 27 Lytchett Matravers
Water Pipit - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Siberian Chiffchaff - two birds of tristis type present but silent at Holes Bay/PC World drain
Firecrest - 1 Castle Cove, Weymouth
Snow Bunting - 1 West Bexington

Late news:  Hen Harrier at Winfrith Heath yesterday.


Waxwings at Lytchett Matravers © John Wareham