Sightings - Sunday 9th November 2014

Surf Scoter - a first-winter male Abbotsbury (The Fleet).
Velvet Scoter - 2 Ringstead Bay.
Mandarin - 1 Boyshill.
Grey Partridge - heard at Wyke Down.
Great White Egret - 1 Brownsea Island.
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit, 1 Swineham.
Hen Harrier - 1 Swineham.
Great Bustard - 1 east over Weymouth and Lodmoor before 8am.
Grey Plover - 3 Hengistbury Head.
Jack Snipe - 1 West Bexington.
Woodcock - 1 Portland (Easton).
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury sandspit.
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Little Gull - 1 Durlston CP.
Little Tern - 1 Lodmoor.
Black Tern - 1 Lodmoor.
Black Guillemot - 1 Portland Harbour.
Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 Studland.
Short-eared Owl - 3 Portland Bill, 2 Wyke Down.
Swallow - 2 Durlston CP, 3 Portland Bill.
Black Redstart - 2 Durlston CP, 1 Portland Bill.
Ring Ouzel - 1 Boyshill, 3 Hartland Moor.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Portland (Avalanche Road).
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Head, 3 Lytchett Bay, 2 Rushcombe Bottom.



A one-footed Turnstone at Hengistbury © Joe Murphy



Jack Snipe at West Bexington © Mike Morse