Monday 1st April 2024

Eider - 16 past West Bexington and Portland Bill.
Long-tailed Duck - 1 The Fleet (Littlesea).
White Stork - 1 over the Piddle Valley went east to Stoborough, 1 (perhaps the same) Christchurch Harbour.
Purple Sandpiper - 25 Hengistbury sandspit.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 4 Lytchett Fields.
Forster's Tern - 1 Poole Harbour (Middlebere and Shipstal).
Little Gull - 1 Swineham area (very flooded).
Great Northern Diver - 2 The Fleet (Littlesea).
Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Morden Bog, 1 north over Okeford Hill.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Broadmayne, 1 Wareham Channel, Holes Bay and Creekmoor.
Merlin - 1 Chesil Beach (Littlesea), 1 past Hengistbury Head.
Short-eared Owl - 4 Wyke Down.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog.
Common Redstart - 1 Cogden.

Late news: Hoopoe and Ring Ouzel at Portland Bill yesterday.

Osprey, Morden Bog © Helen Wood.
















Great Grey Shrike, Morden Bog © Helen Wood.















Skylark, Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale.















Short-eared Owls, Wyke Down © Chris Walker.