Sightings - Tuesday 9th April 2013

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - flock of 100 past Portland Bill
Garganey - 3+ Radipole Lake, 2 West Bexington
Scaup - 9 still on The Fleet at Abbotsbury

Velvet Scoter - 1 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Corfe Castle, 1 Sherborne
Black Kite - 1 probable at West Bexington could not be confirmed.
Osprey - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Jack Snipe - 1 Stanpit
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Portland
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Stanpit
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Portland (Reap Lane)
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Lytchett Bay
Stone Curlew - 2 West Bexington

Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Swift - 1st of the year over Blacknor
Tree Pipit - 1 Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor
White Wagtail - 10 Portland, 3 Lyme Regis, 7 West Bexington

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Portland, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 West Bexington, 1 Radipole
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston, 1 The Nothe, 1 Portland (Reap Lane), 1 Stanpit, 1 West Bexington, 1 Winspit
Redstart - 1 Lytchett Bay, 2 West Bexington, 1 Portland Bill

Ring Ouzel - 4 Portland
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Portland Bill

Reed Warbler - 1st of the year Portland Bill
Whitethroat - 1st of the year Portland Bill
Firecrest - 13 Portland Bill, 1 The Nothe


Red Kite at Sherborne © Paul Dibben