Sightings - Sunday 8th December 2013

Eider - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Portland Harbour
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Portland Harbour (from Sandsfoot Castle)
Black-necked Grebe - 16 Portland Harbour
Spoonbill - 8 Brownsea Island lagoon, 3 Arne
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Arne Moors
Merlin - 1 Lytchett Bay
Crane - 2 south of Cheselbourne
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Hengistbury Head
Great Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Ring-billed Gull - 1 first winter briefly at Swineham
Melodious Warbler - 1 immature still in Winspit Valley
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 heard Winspit Valley
Siberian Chiffchaff - 2 Winspit Valley
Firecrest - 1 Pennsylvania Castle (Portland)
Snow Bunting - 4 West Bexington

Bearded Tit at Radipole © Angela Trew

Water Rail at Radipole © Angela Trew