Friday 17th November 2023

Greater Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery (please note the swannery is now closed & only view from public rights of way).
Common Scoter  - 23 off Hengistbury Head, 5 Studland Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Tidmoor Point The fleet
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 1 Male Lodmoor RSPB
Wood Pigeon - 28,040 over West Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Tidmoor Point The Fleet
Black-Necked Grebe- 8 Studland Bay, 1 Longham Lakes (North Lake), 1 Brands Bay
Golden Plover - 50 Lodmoor RSPB
Black-tailed Godwit - 1077 Holes Bay, 985 East Holme, 275 Brands Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Head Sandspit Groynes, 4 Lyme Regis Cobb
Jack Snipe - 1 Slepe Heath
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Red Throated Diver - 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Hengistbury Head
Black Throated Diver - 1 off Portland Castle
Great Northern Diver - 3 Portland Harbour, 2 Tidmoor point The Fleet, 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay
Gannet - 1 over Hartland Moor
Spoonbill - 24 Shipstal point Arne RSPB, 1 Holes Bay
Cattle Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 5 Longham Lakes
White Tailed Eagle - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT in the morning, 1 Wareham Channel in the afternoon
Short Eared Owl - 2 Stoborough Heath, 1 Lanes End Road Wareham Forest, 1 Portland NE of The Lobster Pot
Jackdaw - 1000+ into roost at Holes Bay
Bearded Tit -2 Holes Bay
Swallow - 1 Lytchett Bay Rock Lea VP
Firecrest -  2 Longham Lakes, 1 Tidmoor Point The Fleet
Lesser Redpoll - 12 Thorncombe Woods, 10 West Bay


Purple Sandpiper - Lyme Bay Cobb © Roger Boswell





Lapwing - Lodmoor RSPB  © Clinton Whale