Sightings - Monday 7th January 2013

Whooper Swan - 1 near the Aquatic Ecology lab, East Stoke
Pink-footed Goose - 1 Holmebridge
Scaup - 10 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-Tailed Duck - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 6 on River Frome in East Stoke - Holme Bridge area
Red-Throated Diver - 4  Christchurch Harbour sandspit
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannerys
Common Gull - 300+ on Chesil Beach at Abbotsbury
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Christchurch Harbour sandspit
Grey Plover - 16 Stanpit
Snipe - 132+ at Lytchett Bay is a very good count for the site.
Jack Snipe - 1 Lytchett Bay
Whimbrel - 1 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Waxwing - 24 Lytchett Matravers
Snow Bunting - 1 West Bexington

Late news:  100+ count of Common Snipe at West Bexington at the weekend was a site record.



Whooper Swan, Frome Valley © Will Bown













Waxwing at Lytchett Matravers © Ian Ballam