Sightings - Thursday 7th April 2011

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 4+ Newton's Cove
Great Northern Diver - 3 at Weymouth Bay
Red Kite - 1 over Bournemouth, 1 near Maiden Newton, 1 over Cerne Abbas
Hobby - 1 over Durlston, 1 Barleycrates Lane
Purple Sandpiper - 7 at Portland Bill
Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 still at Lodmoor
Whimbrel - 1 past Durlston
Spotted Redshank - 1 at Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 at Chard Junction GP
Cuckoo - 1 at Morden Bog
Short-toed Lark - 1 still in ploughed field opposite PBO
Tree Pipit - 2 at Morden Bog, 2 over Portland, 1 over Durlston
Yellow Wagtail - 3 over Hengistbury Head, 3 over Portland, 2 over Durlston
White Wagtail - 4 at Portland, 2 at Hengistbury Head
Waxwing - 33 between Walditch Gardens and Rowbarrow Close, Canford Heath
Black Redstart - 1 at Durlston
Redstart - 12 at Durlston, 10 at Portland, 2 at Morden Bog, 1 at Hengistbury Head, 1 at Tarrant Gunville
Stonechat - 1 of the race rubicola at Lloyds Cottage, Portland
Grasshopper Warbler - 4 at Durlston, 2 at Stanpit Marsh, 1 at Lodmoor
Willow Warbler - 250 at Hengistbury Head, 140+ at Durlston
Pied Flycatcher - 1 in woods below Parkstone Heights, Poole
Brambling - 5 at Blandford, 1 over Durlston, several still in a garden in Winterborne Whitechurch

Red-flanked Bluetail (yesterday) at Durlston © Mike Coleman