Happy New Year to all readers and a big thank you for all your reports and photos during 2011. Here's hoping that 2012 proves to be just as good a birding year!
Barnacle Goose - 37 in field behind Rodden Hive, 4 at Middlebere
Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 5 Shell Bay
Blue-winged Teal - 1 Longham Lakes
Ring-necked Duck - 1+ still on the Great Pond at Forde Abbey
Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes
Eider - 2 Redhorn Quay
Smew - 1 Longham Lakes
Goosander - 1 Longham Lakes
Great Northern Diver - 5 Weymouth Bay, 1 South Haven, 1 Redhorn Quay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 South Haven
Bittern - 3 Hatch Pond
Spoonbill - 15 Brownsea Lagoon
Marsh Harrier - 5+ at a roost in Poole Harbour, 1 Lodmoor
Hen Harrier - 1 Wyke Down
Merlin - 1 Lytchett Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 13 Hengistbury Head
Ruff - 1 Stanpit
Spotted Sandpiper - still at the Cobb, Lyme Regis
Ring-billed Gull - adult seen at both Lodmoor and Radipole Lake
Short-eared Owl - 2 Wyke Down, 1 over Upton
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wyke Down, Sixpenny Handley
Snow Bunting - 1 still on the beach at Hengistbury Head
