Long-tailed Duck – 1 Arne
Eider – 1 Arne, 3 Weymouth Bay
Goosander – 1 Christchurch Harbour (Wick), 4 Longham Lakes, 2+ Portland Harbour
Smew – 3 Longham Lakes
Great Northern Diver – 2 Weymouth Bay
Red-necked Grebe – 1 Portland Harbour
Slavonian Grebe – 2 Durlston Head, 4 Portland Harbour, 1 Weymouth Bay
Black-necked Grebe – 16+ Portland Harbour, 60+ Studland (Knoll Beach)
Bittern – 3 Radipole, 2 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere, 1+ Hatch Pond
Spoonbill – 8 Arne
Marsh Harrier – 3+ Middlebere, 2 Radipole
Hen Harrier – 2 Middlebere, 1 Sixpenny Handley area, 1 Tarrant Rushton airfield
Merlin – 2 Middlebere
Ruff – 1 Middlebere
Long-billed Dowitcher – 1 Lodmoor
Short-eared Owl – 1 Sixpenny Handley
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker – 1 reported Arne
Water Pipit – 2 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit
Waxwing – 12 Poole (Canford Heath – Bader Rd area), 14 Bournemouth (Palmerston Rd area)
Firecrest – 1 Arne, 1 Durlston CP, 1 Middlebere
Great Grey Shrike – 1 Arne (Coombe Heath)
Starling – the Poole (Sterte area) roost is estimated at 100,000+ birds.
Tree Sparrow – 2 Sixpenny Handley (pumping station area)
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| Bittern with Roach(?) at Hatch Pond © Pete Coe |
