Sightings - Monday 27th March 2017

Velvet Scoter - 11 passing along Chesil Beach.
Great Northern Diver - 1 passing along Chesil Beach.
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake.
Osprey - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Merlin - 1 Morden Bog.
Hobby - 1 on Hartland Moor is a very early arrival.
Grey Plover - c. 40 Brownsea Island.
Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lodmoor.
Greenshank - 1+ Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 1+ Brownsea Island.
Common Sandpiper - 2 Swineham.
Puffin - 5 off the coast.
Swallow - 2 Ferrybridge.
Sand Martin - 14 Ferrybridge.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog.
Black Redstart - 1 in a Portland garden.



Rook building nest in Wimborne © Roger Peart

Goldfinch on Talbot Heath © David Wareham