Reports of interest, Friday 10th January 2020.

Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay.
Black-Necked Grebe - 5 Brand's Bay, 8 Studland Bay.
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Brand's Bay.
Spoonbill - 1 Brand's Bay.
Ring-Necked Duck - 1 Sturminster Marshall GPs (view only from the path east of the site).
Scaup - 3 Longham Lakes.
Long-Tailed Duck - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Poole Harbour (Brand's Bay).
Cattle Egret - 3 Longham Lakes.
Great White Egret - 1 Goathorn, 2 Longham Lakes.
Red Kite - 2 Wyke Down.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour; 9 roosted in Poole Harbour last night.
Hen Harrier - 1 Milborne St. Andrew, 1 Poole Harbour (Holton shore).
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit Marsh.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh.
Sandwich Tern - 1 Poole Harbour.
Short-Eared Owl - 2 Milborne St. Andrew.
Ring-Necked Parakeet - 3 Studland.
Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill is thought to be the second UK winter record of the species.
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh.
‘Scandinavian’ Rock Pipit - 15 Stanpit Marsh.
Siberian-type Chiffchaff - 1 Wareham Common.
Firecrest - 1 Middlebere.
Tree Sparrow - several reported in a mixed flock with Linnets, Farrington (Shaftesbury).

Eider outside Lyme Regis harbour © Roger Boswell.