Sightings - Friday 3rd January 2014

Bewick's Swan - 2 from the Wareham By-pass.
Pale-bellied Brent - 1 Ferrybridge
Smew - 1 Lytchett Bay No public access
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Mudeford Quay
Red-throated Diver - 2 Mudeford Quay
Black-throated Diver - 4 Osprey Quay
Great Northern Diver - 3 Portland Hbr, 1 Mudeford Quay
Slavonian Grebe - 7 Portland Hbr.
Manx Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Storm Petrel - 1 off Hamm Beach Portland Hbr.
Glossy Ibis - 1 Radipole Park
Purple Sandpiper - 9 Mudeford Quay, 8 Lyme Regis
Grey Phalarope - 2 Kimmeridge for second day
Great Skua - 11 Chesil Cove, 4 Portland Bill, 1 West Bexington
Arctic Skua - 1 Mudeford Quay
Pomarine Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Weymouth Bay (gull roost)
Glaucous Gull - 1 ad. West Bexington

Purple Sandpiper - Hengistbury Sandspit © Clinton Whale

Grey Phalarope - Kimmeridge © Peter Moore

Bewick's Swan - Wareham by-pass © Paul Morton