Saturday 30th March 2024

Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane GPs.
Bar-headed Goose - 1 Holme Lane GPs.
Eider - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Grey Plover - c20 Brownsea Island.
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Hengistbury groynes.
Sanderling - c20 Brownsea Island, 2 Hengistbury groynes.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Forster's Tern - 1 Poole Harbour, presumably last year's bird returning.
Mediterranean Gull - 300+ through Christchurch Harbour.
Little Gull - 1 Lodmoor.
Great Northern Diver - 5 northern Poole Harbour, 1 Hengistbury beach huts.
Guillemot - 1 off Brownsea Island, unusual at this time of year.
Cattle Egret - 16 Holmebridge.
Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Island, 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Osprey - 1 Morden Bog, 3 Poole Harbour.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 N of Sherborne, 1 Wareham Channel.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 4 Wareham Channel.
House Martin - 2 Lytchett Bay.
Wheatear - 8 Christchurch Harbour
Willow Warbler - 10 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Lytchett Fields.
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head.
Snow Bunting - 1 East Dorset on private land.



Wheatear, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.



















Little Gull, Lodmoor © Derek Fowler.













Curlew, Arne © Helen Wood.















Dartford Warbler, Arne © Helen Wood.

Snow Bunting, East Dorset © reserved, via Paul Harris.