Monday 24th March 2025

Garganey - drake still at Coward's Marsh
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Bramble Bush Bay
LESSER SCAUP - 1 still Longham Lakes on South Lake
Whooper Swan - 1 still at Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 2 off Castle Cove in Portland Harbour
Little Ringed Plover - 5 on Piddle Valley floods at Swineham, 2 in off sea at Hengistbury Head
Greenshank - 1 in off sea at Hengistbury Head
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 adult again off Shipstal Point
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Abbotsbury Swannery around western meadows
Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Horton
Osprey - male '022' and female '1H1' at Poole Harbour
Red Kite - 1 Horton
Hoopoe - 1 past PBO just after dawn
House Martin - 1 Wimborne St Giles
Ring Ouzel - 1 in off sea at Hengistbury Head
Redstart - 1 in an Easton garden on Portland this morning
Black Redstart - 3 Hengistbury Head, 1 Holton Heath Trading Park, 1 Abbotsbury western meadows, 1 Cobham Drive in Weymouth
Yellow Wagtail - 1 near Pirate's Cove (The Fleet)
Blue-headed Wagtail - 2 in Lower Piddle Valley, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 in field north of Reap Lane

Dunlin, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Grey Heron, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown

Pintail, Lodmoor RSPB © Will Bown