Sightings - Saturday 7th December 2019

Barnacle Goose - 25 Rodden Hive
Black Brant - 1 off Shipstal Point
Eider - 1 Portland Harbour
Garganey - 1 female Lodmoor RSPB
Scaup - 1 female Lodmoor RSPB
Long-tailed Duck - 2 off Jerry's Point, 1 Rodden Hive, 1 on the Fleet between Camp Road & Herbury
Velvet Scoter - 1 on the Fleet between Camp Road & Herbury
Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 Bramble Bush Bay
Great White Egret - 1 over Bramble Bush Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spoonbill - 15 Shipstal Point
Slavonian Grebe - 4 on the Fleet between Camp Road & Herbury
Black-necked Grebe - 18 Knowle Beach, 2 Bramble Bush Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail at Milborne St Andrew
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Avocet - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wareham Forest
Firecrest - 5 Wakeham
Swallow - 1 over Arne Bay
'Eastern' Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Wakeham (Portland)
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Chad's Copse (Lytchett Bay)
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor (Portland) 

Bearded Tit at Radipole RSPB © Peter Coe

Avocet at Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill