Sightings - Thursday 31st January 2019

Red-throated Diver - 10 past Mudeford Quay
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Lynch Cove, Wyke Regis
Brent Goose - 1 pale-bellied, Ferrybridge
Scaup - 1st winter drakes at Abbotsbury Swannery and Sturminster Marshall Gravel Pits
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Lynch Cove, Wyke Regis
Cattle Egret - 4 in field by River Frome west of Wareham bypass
Spoonbill - 12 in Wareham Channel
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lodmoor
Purple Sandpiper - 6 flew into Christchurch Harbour
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Wareham Channel
Marsh Harrier - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Waxwing - 5 at Carey Road, Wareham
Black Redstart - 2 Church Opie Cove, Portland
Chiffchaff - 20 Abbotsbury Swannery yesterday

Black-tailed Godwit, Poole Park copyright David Wareham