Wednesday 6th December 2023

BLUE-WINGED TEAL - 1 possible elipse drake in Brand's Bay though very elusive (also seen yesterday at Silverlake)
Long-tailed Duck -  1 Jerry's Point
Eider - 2 Poole Harbour
Goosander - 2 on Fleet near Bridging Camp
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Redhorn Quay
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Jerry's Point
Knot - 2 Peveril Point
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Lyme Regis, 1 still at Peveril Point
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wick
Black-throated Diver - 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Hengistbury
Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury, 1 Jerry's Point
Great Northern Diver - 11 still in Poole Harbour, 6 Portland Harbour from Castle
Spoonbill - 6 Lytchett Bay
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 Swineham, 1 Bishop's Caudle
Cattle Egret - 1 over south of Iwerne Courtney
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 1 Brand's Bay
Waxwing - 2 Christchurch (at Two Riversmeet LC this morning then flew towards town centre)
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Nothe Fort), 1 Hengistbury Head VC
Firecrest - 2 retrapped at Durlston CP
Water Pipit - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yesterday at Wyke Farm, near Winyard's Gap - 2 Jack Snipe, 3 Marsh Tit, 2-3 Hawfinch, 6 Lesser Redpoll

 
Purple Sandpiper, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell

Turnstone, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell


Pintail, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale