Sightings - Wednesday 16th March 2011

Scaup - 15 remain on the Fleet at Abbotsbury
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Portland Harbour
Spoonbill - 2 Lodmoor
Marsh Harrier - 1 Little Sea, Studland
Little Ringed Plover - 2 Lodmoor, 1 heard Priory Marsh
Purple Sandpiper - 3 Portland Bill
Long-billed Dowitcher
- 1 Lodmoor
Green Sandpiper - 1 Northbourne Water Works
Spotted Redshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Brownsea Island
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Is.
Glaucous Gull - 1 adult Charmouth (subsequently re-identified as either a leucistic Herring Gull or hybrid)
Sandwich Tern - 4 Brownsea Is, 1 past West Bexington
Hoopoe - 1 Portland Bill

Meadow Pipit - 88 Hengistbury Hd.
Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor
White Wagtail - 2 Priory Marsh
Black Redstart - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
Stonechat - 18 Hengistbury Head
Wheatear - 4 Portland Bill
Chiffchaff - 19 Hengistbury Hd, 10 Portland Bill
Willow Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head (first of the year for CHOG)
Firecrest - Singles at Weston & Southwell, Portland


Spoonbills at Lodmoor © Derek Fowler