Sunday 3rd March 2024

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Tidmoor Point
Goldeneye - 1 male on South Lake at Longham Lakes
Long-tailed Duck - 3 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Slavonian Grebe - 5 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point, 2 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle, 1 Poole Harbour (South Deep)
Black-necked Grebe - 5 Poole Harbour, 3 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle, 1 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Lyme Bay Cobb, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 1st-winter Lytchett Bay this morning
Sandwich Tern - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great Northern Diver - 12 Poole Harbour, 2 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point, 2 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle
Black-throated Diver - Portland Harbour: 5 from Sandsfoot Castle and 2 from Portland Castle
Cattle Egret - 12 Stanpit arly morning, 2 Hampreston Fields
Great White Egret - 1 Child Okeford on R Stour
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Winterborne Stickland
Hen Harrier - 1 over Wild Woodbury DWT
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wareham Forest near Sugar Hill
Swallow - 1 over Acton
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still at Louds Mill Dorchester opposite STW (SY709902)
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Castle
Lesser Redpoll - 3 Wareham Forest

Yesterday : 14 Goosander roosted at Silverlake in the evening

Stonechat, Badbury Rings © John Bishop

Wigeon, Stanpit © Clinton Whale


Marsh Tit, Leeson Woods Langton Matravers © Garry Hayman