Sightings - Tuesday 26th February 2019

Cattle Egret - 24 Abbotsbury Swannery, 7 East Holme
Ring-necked Duck - 1 First winter drake Radipole
Spoonbill - 9 over Arne, 1 Lytchett Fields
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor
Green Sandpiper - 1 on the Jurassic Roundabout Pool, Weymouth
Purple Sandpiper - 10 Cobb Rock Armour, Lyme Regis
Short-eared Owl - 1 Hartland Moor
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Middlebere
Sand Martin - 7 north at Cold Harbour Lake, Weymouth, 3 Portland
Black Redstart - 1 male at Thistle Hotel, Poole
Wheatear - 1 male Ferrybridge
Penduline Tit - 1 male Lodmoor

Other news - 2 Large Tortoiseshell butterflies seen and photographed at Tout Quarry, Portland today. First report was on 24th February.

Penduline Tit, Lodmoor copyright Joe Kaplonek

Penduline Tit, Lodmoor copyright Joe Kaplonek


Penduline Tit, Lodmoor copyright Joe Kaplonek

Lapwing copyright David Wareham


Large Tortoiseshell Portland copyright Mike Gibbons