Sightings - Sunday 3rd January 2016

Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Goosander - 1 drake Frampton on Frome
Red-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 9 Portland Hbr, 3 Brand's Bay, 2 Shell Bay, 1 Studland Bay, 1 Gold Point
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Brand's Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Brand's Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 12 Brand's Bay, 1 Portland Hbr.
Spoonbill - 3 Lytchett Fields
Merlin - 1 Arne Moors
Purple Sandpiper - 3 South Haven by ferry.
Jack Snipe - 1 West Bexington
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great Skua - 2 Portland Bill, 1 east Poole Bay
Little Gull - 2 Mudeford Quay, 1 Steamer Point, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Bowleaze Cove
Sandwich Tern - 1 Sandbanks
Black Guillemot - 1 Shell Bay
Short-eared Owl - 2 Southwell, 1 Slepe Heath
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields
Black  Redstart - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Blacknor
Wheatear - 1 still Tarrant Rushton airfield.

Great Northern Diver - Portland Harbour © Jayson Grove


Little Gull - Bowleaze Cove © Brett Spencer