Saturday 4th January 2025

Barnacle Goose - 7 Silverlake, 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Velvet Scoter - 4 Hengistbury Head

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Jerry's Point

Goldeneye - 1 Sandsfoot Castle

Slavonian Grebe - 2 Jerry's Point

Black-necked Grebe - 2 Jerry's Point, 4 Sandsfoot Castle,  still from Middle Beach Studland

Avocet - 123 Brownsea, 1 Lodmoor

Grey Plover - 76 Brownsea

Bar-tailed Godwit - 77 Brownsea

Black-tailed Godwit - 50 Brownsea

Dunlin - c.1600 Brownsea

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill, 1 Mudeford, 1 Hamworthy Beach, 2 West Bay, 5 Hengistbury Head

Greenshank - 3 Brownsea

Red-throated Diver - 29 logged from Long Groyne Christchurch Harbour

Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour

Great Northern Diver - 2 Christchurch Harbour

Marsh Harrier - 7 Christchurch Harbour

Firecrest - 1 Thorncombe Woods

Black Redstart - 1 Nothe Weymouth, 

Snow Bunting - 1 still Hamworthy Beach

Yesterday:

Woodcock - 11 Moreton

Snow Bunting, Hamworthy Beach  © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave

Purple Sandpiper, West Bay©  Maurice Budden

Wigeon, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Purple Sandpiper, Hamworthy Beach © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave

Friday 3rd January 2025

Velvet Scoter - 4 Hengistbury Head

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 from Jerry's Point

Red-breasted Merganser - 5 Poole Harbour - Whitney Lake

Slavonian Grebe - 2 from Jerry's Point

Black-necked Grebe - 2 Studland Bay, 1 from Jerry's Point, 4 Portland Harbour

Avocet - 1 Lodmoor

Golden Plover - c.400 Lodmoor

Ruff - 2 Swineham Point

Purple Sandpiper - 10 Lyme Regis

 Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Sandwich Tern - 2 off Furzey

Black-throated Diver - 1 Parkstone Bay Poole Harbour, 2 Portland Harbour

Great Northern Diver - 2 Portland Harbour

Spoonbill - 25 Arne RSPB

Great White Egret - 2 Silverlake

Hen Harrier - 2 Wyke Down

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Winterbourne Stickland

Short-eared Owl - 1 Slepe Heath, Middlebere, 2 Wyke Down

Merlin - 1 Wyke Down

Black Redstart - 1 Maiden Newton, 1 Portland

Crossbill - 26 Sugar Hill

Snow Bunting - 1 still at Hamworthy Beach

Peregrine, Silverlake  © John Dadds

Slavonian Grebe, Jerry's Point  © John Dadds

Snipe, Lodmoor  © David Nunn

Dartford Warbler, Arne  © John Bishop

Avocet, Lodmoor   © Derek Fowler

Kingfisher Lodmoor  © David Nunn

Kingfisher, Lodmoor  © Derek Fowler

Thursday 2nd January 2025

Goldeneye - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 drake at Lodmoor RSPB
Eider - 1 Jerry's Point and later in Shell Bay

Long-tailed Duck - 1 flew into Poole Harbour again at dawn and was later off Jerry's Point

Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Point

Black-necked Grebe - 8 Portland Harbour, 5 Jerry's Point, 3 off Shipstal Point, 2 Studland Bay

Sanderling - 19 Pilot's Point

Purple Sandpiper - 8 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit, 2 Sandbanks

Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Bay

Black-throated Diver - 2 Parkstone Bay

Great Northern Diver -  6 Portland Harbour, 5 Jerry's Point, 3 Shell Bay, 2 Studland Bay from Middle              Beach, 1 off Hamworthy Park

Spoonbill - 25 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB), 2 Middlebere

Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Short-eared Owl - 4 Wyke Down

Black Redstart - 1 Portland Harbour near Marina, 1 in a Canford Cliffs garden
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB in New Pools Field, 1 Swineham Point
Snow Bunting - 1 male still at Hamworthy Beach

Purple Sandpiper, Christchurch Harbour Sandspit © Clinton Whale

Wednesday 1st January 2025

Many thanks to all contributors to this sightings blog last year. Wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous 2025.

Long-tailed Duck - 1 again flew into Poole Harbour at dawn
Velvet Scoter - 4 off Hengistbury Head
Red-breasted Merganser - 42 flew into Poole Harbour at dawn

Black-necked Grebe - 4 still in Studland Bay off Middle Beach

Golden Plover - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Purple Sandpiper -  15 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit

Red-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Black-throated Diver  -1 flew into Poole Harbour, 1 Portland Harbour from Billy Winters

Great Northern Diver -2 Studland Bay, 2 flew into Poole Harbour, 1 Hengistbury Head

Brambling - female in a Keysworth garden
Snow Bunting - 1 still at Hamworthy

 

Sparrowhawk, Lyme Regis © Roger Boswell