Sunday 1st January 2023

Dorset Bird Club would like to wish you all a very successful and healthy birding 2023. 

Scaup - 6 Tidmoor Pt.
Eider - 2 Portland Hbr.
Velvet Scoter - 1 male off Jerry's Pt. Poole Hbr, 1 flew south Chesil Cove
Goldeneye - 1 male Poole Park lake
Grey Partridge - 29 Wyke Down
Red-throated Diver - 2 south from Shell Bay, 2 on sea off Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 6 Poole her Entrance, 4 Portland Hbr, 1 Middle Beach, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Hbr.
Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Jerry's Pt, 2 Littlesea Fleet, 1 Tidmoor Pt.
Black-necked Grebe - 7 from Jerry's Pt, 5 Portland Hbr, 4 Middle Beach, 1 Lynch Cove
Manx Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Storm Petrel - 1 past Chesil Cove, 1 Portland Hbr.
Leach's Storm Petrel - 1 past Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 30+ Portesham from old Railway Line, 1 NE of Wareham Common
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 5 Ham Common, 1 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Tidmoor (heading toward Weymouth Town Centre)
Goshawk - 1 between Hartland Moor/Wytch Causeway
Merlin - 1 fem. Wyke Down
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Little Gull - 2 ad Chesil Cove, 1 Portland Bill
Yellowhammer - 400 Milborne St. Andrew, 33 Wyke Down
Cirl Bunting - 1 male Reap Lane Portland
Corn Bunting - c220 Milborne St. Andrew, 134 Wyke Down

Black-tailed Godwit - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale