Sunday 17th December 2023

Pintail - 176 Brands Bay
Eider - 2 from Jerry's Point
Common Scoter - 18 off Hengistbury Head, 6 off Middle Beach
Long-tailed Duck - 1juv from Brands Bay, 1 off Tidmoor Point
Goldeneye - 4 from Jerry's Point
Goosander - 26 Silverlake
Slavonian Grebe - 2 still Tidmoor Point, The Fleet, 2 from Jerry's Point
Black-necked Grebe - 10 still Middle Beach, 2 from Jerry's Point
Grey Plover - 30 Brownsea Lagoon, 21 Brands Bay, 21 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Tidmoor Point
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Hengistbury Groynes
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Poole Park
Red-throated Diver - 1 from Jerry's Point, 1 off Hengistbury Head
Black-throated Diver - 1 still Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 6 off Jerry's Point, 3 Poole Harbour, 2 Tidmoor Point,1 Brands Bay
Spoonbill - 25 nr. Ower Bay
Cattle Egret - 37 with sheep nr. Sewage Works, Abbotsbury, 15 on floods, west end Wareham Common, 4 Holwell Farm, Buckland Ripers
Hen Harrier - 1m Keysworth, Wareham Channel
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Lodmoor RSPB
Merlin - 2 Moonfleet, The Fleet
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Castle
Brambling - 1 Ruth's Rest, Thorncombe Woods
Hawfinch - 1 Charity Wood, nr. Winterbourne Stickland


Greylag Geese, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale


Black-tailed Godwits, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


White-tailed Eagle, over Lodmoor RSPB © Helen Wood