Thursday 21st March 2024

Mandarin - 2 Corfe Mullen
Long-tailed Duck - 1 off Jerry's Point
Red-throated Diver - 4 past Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 4 Poole Hbr, 1 off Hamm Beach
Cattle Egret - 35 Swineham GP
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Hbr, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Merlin - 1 over Hartland Moor
Purple Sandpiper - 35 Hengistbury Hd.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Wareham Channel, 1 Holes Bay
Sandwich Tern - 6 Brownsea Laggon
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Green Woodpecker - 1 Wick (1st here for several Years)
Sand Martin - 3 Peveril Pt.
Swallow - 3 Portland Bill, 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Bridport
House Martin - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Louds Mill
Black Redstart - 1 male Portland Bill
Siberian Lesser Whitethroat - 1 probable Southwell
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill
Willow Warbler - 15 Portland Bill, 2 Lodmoor.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wareham Forest
Wheatear - 30 Portland Bill, 24 Barn Field & Crouch Hill Christchurch, 8 California Fm, 3 Slepe Heath, 2 Holes Bay, 2 Redhorn Quay, singles from Durlston, Perveril Pt.
Cirl Bunting - 1 Wild Woodbury

Leucistic Black-headed Gull - Longham Lakes © Gary Holderness

Nuthatch - Silverlake © Alan Membury

Wheatear - Redhorn Quay © Janet Panter