Sightings - Wednesday 20th March 2013

Scaup - 9 still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-Tailed Duck - 3 still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 4 Avon Cuseway
Velvet Scoter - 2 Portland Harbour
Grey Partridge - 1 Wyke Down
Bittern - 1 departed Lodmoor this evening
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor, 5 Lytchett Bay
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Hen Harrier - 1 Wyke Down
Grey Plover - 31 Stanpit
Golden Plover - 50 Wyke Down
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Crouch Hill
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit
Greenshank - 2 Lytchett Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay (PC World drain)
Jack Snipe - 1 Lytchett Bay
Woodcock - 1 Horselynch Plantation (Weymouth)
Short-Eared Owl - 4 Wyke Down
Rock Pipit - 1 littoralis-type at Stanpit
Wheatear - 2 Bridport golf course, 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Portland Bill, 1 Wick
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest - 1 Portland Bill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wyke Down


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