Sightings - Thursday 29th December 2016

Bewick's Swan - 1 yesterday c1km south of Avon Causeway
Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields
Eider - 3 Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 5 Portland Harbour
Bittern - 1 Radipole
Cattle Egret - 1 Bockhampton
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 Little Sea (Studland)
Spoonbill - 22 on Brownsea Lagoon, 19 off Swineham Point
Spotted Redshank - 2 Holes Bay, 4 Brownsea Lagoon
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Ruff - 1 Upton CP
Jack Snipe - 1 Longham Lakes
Woodlark - 8 Crossways
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Coward's Marsh
Great Grey Shrike - singles at Hartland Moor, Godlingston Heath and Canford Heath
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 1st-winter at 103 Damers Road, Dorchester


Great White Egret - Longham Lakes © Martin Wood

Teal - Stanpit Marsh © Joe Murphy

Snipe - Lodmoor © David Wareham
Bittern - Radipole © Colin Mitchell
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