Sightings - Thursday 28th March 2013

Garganey - 1 Cowards Marsh, 2 Hengistbury Head
Scaup - 6+ still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 2 Cowards Marsh
Long-Tailed Duck - 3 still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Bittern - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay, 4 Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit
Hen Harrier - 1 left a roost in Poole Harbour, 1 Wareham North Bridge, 1 Wyke Down
Osprey - 2 over Hengistbury Head
Merlin - 1 Durlston, 1 Morden Bog
Golden Plover - c. 500 Maiden Castle, 220 West Compton
Green Sandpiper - 1 Littlemoor
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1+ Wyke Down
Ring-Necked Parakeet - 5 Studland
Tree Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Head
Meadow Pipit - 2750 Hengistbury Head
Water Pipit - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Stanpit
White Wagtail - 1 Cowards Marsh, 3 West Bexington
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Poundbury, 1 Studland
Ring Ousel - 1 Hengistbury golf course
Firecrest - 1 Durlston, 3+ Slepe, 1 Stanpit, 1 Swanage
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wyke Down


Sand Martin, Poole Harbour © Tim Balmer


Marsh Harrier, Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy