Sightings - Friday 1st January 2016

Happy New Year and good birding in 2016

Eider - 1 Portland Bill.
Velvet Scoter - 4 Portland Bill.
Scaup - 1 Lodmoor.
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay.
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 10 Poole Hbr (incl showy bird at Baiter),
                               1 Middle Beach
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Poole Hbr, 1 Middle Beach
Black-necked Grebe - 9 Poole Hbr, 2 Middle Beach, 1 Hamm Beach
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Jerry's Point.
Spoonbill - 32 Poole Hbr, 3 Lytchett Bay.
Hen Harrier - 1 Hartland Moor.
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Hengistbury Hd, 1 North Haven.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Lagoon.
Greenshank - 4 Brownsea Lagoon.
Little Gull - 5 Chesil Cove, 3 Overcombe, 1 Lodmoor, 1 West Lexington,
                2 Avon Beach.
Sandwich Tern, 2 Poole Hbr, 1 Baiter (Poole), 2 Christchurch Hbr.
Swallow - 1 Canford Magna Golf Course.
Water Pipit - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lytchett Bay.
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor Portland.
Firecrest - 1 Stanpit, 1 Middle Beach, 1 PC World drain.

Little Gull - Overcombe © Daragh Croxson