Sightings - Saturday 12th March 2016

Great Northern Diver - 2 Weymouth Bay.
Black-Throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour.
Red-Throated Diver - 2 past Portland Bill.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 in partial summer plumage off Chesil Beach at Ferrybridge.
Spoonbill - 3 Lodmoor.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Golden Plover - 1 Portland Bill.
Black-Tailed Godwit - one of 19 at Lychett Fields had a ring, yellow over black.
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lodmoor, 3 Lytchett Fields.
Short-Eared Owl - 2 Portland Bill.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Dipper - 2 Lyme Regis.
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor (Portland), 3 Portland Bill.
Pallas' Leaf Warbler - 1 Portesham.
Dartford Warbler - 1 Portland Bill.
Firecrest - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Portland Bill.


Curlew at Stanpit Marsh © Joe Murphy


Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Lytchett Fields © Martin Wood