Sightings - Sunday 18th March 2018.

Hen Harrier - 1 male Wareham Causeway.
Red Kite - 1 over Coward's Marsh, 1 over Lower Bryanston.
Golden Plover - 450 Ferrybridge, 260e off Durlston, 50+ over Weymouth Bay, 40+ Hamm Beach,30w over Stanpit Marsh, 18e over Whitepits.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham.
Iceland Gull - 1 2cy Weymouth Beach.
Skylark - 25 Coward's Marsh.
Swallow - 1 Swineham GP.
Sand Martin - 2 Coward's Marsh, 2 Swineham GP.
Meadow Pipit - 1000+ Durlston, 300e off Mudeford Quay, 150 Ferrybridge,  60+ Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Redwing - 600 Ferrybridge, 300+ over Lodmoor RSPB, 215 Swineham, 172 Coward's Marsh, 164+ Morden Bog, 90 Hengistbury Head, 40+ over Lytchett.
Fieldfare - 300+ over Lytchett, 200 Ferrybridge, 204+ Morden Bog, 150 Coward's Marsh, 120 Swineham, 45 Hengistbury Head.
Black Redstart - 1 female Blacknor, Portland.
Wheatear - 2 Lodmoor RSPB 1 Ferrybridge, 1 West Bay..
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 still Reap Lane, Portland.
Great Grey Shrike - 2 Morden Bog.
Hawfinch - 60 Lower Bryanston.

** Collectively Redwing 20000 and Fieldfare 16000 were counted moving west along the coast today.

Reed Bunting – Wareham Forest © Fiona Keeling.  
Iceland Gull – Weymouth Beach © Edmund Mackrill.
Hawfinch – Lower Bryanston © Michael Coleman.

Reed Bunting – Wareham Forest © Fiona Keeling.