Sightings - Friday 6th December 2013

Eider - 2 Mudeford Quay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Portland Harbour
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 23 Portland Harbour
Bittern - 2 Lodmoor
Red Kite - 3, possibly up to 7, in Melbury Hill/Compton Down area
Hen Harrier - 1 male at Wyke Down, 1 sub adult male at Lytchett Bay
Crane - 2 south of Cheselbourne, (seen in stubble fields by road to Puddletown and in Dewlish Park meadows)
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Purple Sandpiper - 13 Hengistbury Head
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head
Water Pipit - 1 Priory Marsh
Black Redstart - 4 Nothe Fort (Weymouth), 2 Winspit Valley, 1 Hengisbury Head
Melodious Warbler - 1 immature in Winspit Valley
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Winspit Valley
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Winspit Valley
Willow Warbler - 1 Winspit Valley
Firecrest - 1 Winspit Valley
Snow Bunting - 4 West Bexington

Late news : a Ringed-bill Gull seen briefly near Holes Bay yesterday.

Crane at Dewlish Park © Vaughan & Svetlana Ashby

Crane at Dewlish Park © Vaughan & Svetlana Ashby

Crane at Dewlish Park © Vaughan & Svetlana Ashby

Hen Harrier at Middlebere on 4th December © Dave Hill