Sightings - Thursday 5th December 2019

Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Quail - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Great Northern Diver - 4 Poole Harbour, 2 Portland Harbour
Cattle Egret - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Spoonbill - 19 Shipstal Point, 1 over Baiter Park
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Poole Harbour near Jerry's Point
Black-necked Grebe - 10 Portland Harbour, 9 Middle Beach, Studland Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Wareham Forset (flew in direction of Woolsbarrow Fort), 1 Arne Moors
Goshawk - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Great Bustard - 1 released bird still at West Bexington
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Woodcock - 4 Milborne St Andrew
Short-eared Owl - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Barn Owl - 4 Milborne St Andrew
Ring-necked Parakeet - 5 Studland village near Bankes Arms
Firecrest - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Penns Wood, 1 Brownsea Island
Black Redstart - 1 Osprey Quay (Portland Harbour)
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 West Bexington
Corn Bunting - 56 Milborne St Andrew

Black Redstart at Osprey Quay © Rod Taylor

Mediterranean Gull at Radipole Lake RSPB car park © Edmund Mackrill

Ring-necked Paraqueet at Studland village © Peter Calladine