Sightings - Saturday 17th December 2011

Barnacle Goose - 12 over Lytchett Bay
Eider - 1 Poole Harbour
Goosander - 1 Shipstal Point
Red-throated Diver - 4 past Portland Bill, 1 Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 10 in Weymouth Bay, 1 Shipstal Point
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Shell Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Studland Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 20+ Studland Bay
Great Bustard - 1 with transmitter round neck at Ringstead Bay this morning; in the afternoon probably same bird seen north of Weymouth flying west
Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 13 on the Cobb, Lyme Regis, 4 at Portland Bill
Richard's Pipit - 1 still in fields west of the Bridging Camp, Wyke Regis
Hume's Warbler - 1 still near Littlesea Holiday Park, The Fleet
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 13 in Abbotsbury Gardens, 2 Durlston
Snow Bunting - 1 briefly at Portland Bill

Dartford Warbler, Wareham Forest © Will Bown