Sightings - Sunday 22nd December 2019

Scaup - 1 Rodden Hive, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 2 off Jerry's Point, 1 Tidmoor Point (The Fleet)
Goosander - 2 Spetisbury
Black-throated Diver - 1 Studland Bay from Knoll Beach
Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Spetisbury
Spoonbill - 5 Lytchett Bay, 1 past Hengistbury Head
Black-necked Grebe - 4 Studland Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 female Middlebere, 1 ringtail Milborne St Andrew, 1 juv male Lytchett Bay
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Sanderling - 13 Knoll Beach
Purple Sandpiper - 11 Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Baiter Park, 1 Lytchett Bay
Firecrest - 2 Wareham Common, 2 Hengistbury Head wood, 1 Moor Lane Drive copse (Briantspuddle), 1 Pennsylvania Castle (Portland), 1 Hatch Pond
'Eastern' Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Wakeham (Portland)
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Wareham Common
Black Redstart - 1 Broadwey

Firecrest at Briantspuddle © Roger Hewitt

Knot at Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale