Sightings - Saturday 30th November 2013

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Common Scoter - 100 off Hengistbury Head
Surf Scoter - 1 Brand's Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Spoonbill -  9 Holes Bay
Bittern - 2 Lodmoor
GLOSSY IBIS - 1 Middlebere
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Hengistbury Head
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrews, 1 south end of Morden Bog
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Winspit Valley
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head
Snow Bunting - 4 West Bexington

Glossy Ibis Poole Harbour © Mark Wright  


Male Crossbill Throop Heath © Roger Hewitt 
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Sightings - Friday 29th November 2013

Common Scoter - 70 off Hengistbury Head
Surf Scoter - 1 Brand's Bay
Slavonian Grebe -  1 Weymouth Bay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 52 Studland Bay
Black-throated Diver - 2 Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 3 Weymouth Bay
Spoonbill - 26 Brownsea Island lagoon
Merlin - 1 West Compton
Purple Sandpiper - 10 Lyme Regis Cobb
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 1 Priory Marsh
PENDULINE TIT - juvenile Longham Lakes in the morning before flying off after being flushed by a Sparrowhawk
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrews
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Winspit Valley
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head


Purple Sandpiper Lyme Regis Cobb © Andrew Grinter
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Sightings - Thursday 28th November 2013

Velvet Scoter - 1 past Portland Bill
Surf Scoter - 1 Brand's Bay
Slavonian Grebe -  1 Studland Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 30 Studland Bay
Red-throated Diver - 10 past Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 Studland Bay
Great Northern Diver - 1 Studland Bay
Merlin - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Durlston
Golden Plover - 150 Winterborne Stickland
PENDULINE TIT - juvenile Longham Lakes
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Winspit Valley
Firecrest - 3 Durlston
Tree Sparrow - 1 over Durlston

Penduline Tit at Longham Lakes © Mike Trew 
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Sightings - Wednesday 27th November 2013

Common Scoter - 125 off Hengistbury Head
Velvet Scoter - 1 Weymouth Bay
Surf Scoter - 1 Brand's Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Durlston, 2 past Hengistbury Head
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 2 Portland Harbour, 3 off and 1 past Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 5 Wareham Channel, 5 Holes Bay
Merlin - 1 Hartland Moor
Marsh Harrier - 3 Lodmoor, 5 Poole Harbour
Golden Plover - 300 Maiden Castle
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrew
PENDULINE TIT - juvenile Longham Lakes
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 ringed at Portland Obs
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest - 4 Hengistbury Head
Starling - 20,000 roosting at Lodmoor
Snow Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Head

Penduline Tit at Longham Lakes © Chris Parnell



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Sightings - Tuesday 26th November 2013

Slavonian Grebe - 2 Knoll Beach
Spoonbill - 1 Holes Bay
Glossy Ibis - 4 Hengistbury Head
Golden Plover - 200 West Compton
Merlin - 1 West Compton
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Hartland Moor
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Winspit
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Portland
Water pipit - 2 Priory Marsh, Christchurch
Firecrest - 1 Portland
Snow Bunting - 2 Over Durlston; 5 West Bexington

Also reports of a juvenile either Bearded Tit or Penduline Tit from Longham Lake.


Snipe, Radipole (c) John Hammick


Glossy ibis, Hengistbury Head (c) Joe Murphy


Shelduck, Hengistbury Head, (c) Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Monday 25th November 2013

Velvet Scoter - 1 Weymouth Bay
Surf Scoter - 1 Brands Bay
Glossy ibis - 2 Wick Hams, Christchurch harbour
Hen Harrier - 1 Sixpenny Handley
Merlin - 1 West Bexington
Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor
Firecrest - 1 Portland; 1 Durlston
Snow Bunting - 1 flew over Cogden Beach


Avocet, Brownsea Island (c) Tim Balmer


Buzzard, Brownsea Island (c) Tim Balmer


Grey Plover, Brownsea Island (c) Tim Balmer


Glossy ibis, Hengistbury Head, (c) Joe Murphy


Glossy ibis, Hengistbury Head, (c) Joe Murphy


Water pipit, Lodmoor, (c) Dave Chown

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Sightings - Sunday 24th November 2013

Glossy Ibis - 2 Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 7 Holes Bay
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury
Surf Scoter - 1 Brands Bay
Velvet scoter - 1 Overcombe
Black Brant - 1 Butterstreet Cove
Ring necked Parakeet - 6 Fort Henry, Studland
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Sightings - Saturday 23rd November 2013

Surf Scoter - Brands Bay
Spoonbill - 25 Holes Bay
Bittern - 1 Radipole; 1 Lodmoor
Hen Harrier - 1 Arne
Great Grey Shrike - Milborne St Andrew
Firecrest - 6 Abbotsbury
Whinchat - 1 trapped at Portland is latest ever site record
Snow Bunting - 3 West Bexington


Snow buntings, West Bexington (c) Steve Carey


Kestrel, Hengistbury Head (c) Joe Murphy


Sparrowhawk, Hengistbury Head (c) Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Friday 22nd November 2013

Barnacle Goose - 12 Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 1 1st/w drake west Hengistbury Hd.
Surf Scoter - 1 imm still Brand's Bay
Red-throated Diver - 3 past Hengistbury Hd.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Ringstead Bay
Great White Egret - 1 west West Bay
Spoonbill - 15 Lytchett Bay a.m. 27 Holes Bay p.m.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Middlebere, 1 male near Wool
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 West Bexington, 1ad male Abbotsbury Swannery.
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Little Gull - 1 1st/w Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Middlebere
Black Redstart - 2 Winspit, 1 Hengistbuury Hd.
Snow Bunting - 2 West Bexington

Spoonbill - Lytchett Bay © Shaun Robson

Ringtail Hen Harrier - Middlebere © Phyl England

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Sightings - Thursday 21st November 2013

Little so far today just the following:-

Black Brant - 1 Butterstreet Cove, Fleet
Barnacle Goose - 12 Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Surf Scoter - Brand's Bay
Great Northern Diver - 2 Shell Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 juv fem Middlebere
Golden Plover - 200-230 near West Compton
Pomarine Skua - 1 west Hengistbury Hd.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St. Andrew

Black Redstart (19th) - Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Wednesday 20th November 2013

Barnacle Goose - 10 Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere/Swineham
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 2 Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Middlebere; 5 left Poole Harbour roosts this morning.
Grey Plover - 3 Stanpit
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Yellow-Legged Gull - 1 Middlebere
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head
Sandwich Tern - 3-4 Holes Bay

Late news: 7 Woodcock and a Merlin at Milton Abbas yesterday.

Redshank at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy
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Sightings - Tuesday 19th November 2013

Scaup - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Poole Hbr.
Surf Scoter - 1 imm. again in Brand's Bay
Goosander - 9 Coward's Marsh
Red-throated Diver - 3 off West Bexington
Great Northern Diver - 2 Weymouth Bay, 1 Poole Hbr.
Spoonbill - 20+ Shipstal Pt. Poole Hbr.
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Hengistbury Hd.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Swallow - 2 Portland Bill 
Black Redstart - singles at Hengistbury Hd, Durlston CP, Portland Bill & Nothe Gardens.
Snow Bunting - 2 West Bexington

1 of 15 Purple Sandpiper -Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Crossbill - Wareham Forest © Will Bown

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Sightings - Monday 18th November 2013

Scaup - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay/Goathorn
Black-Throated Diver - 1 Studland
Hen Harrier - 2 Hartland Moor/Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Middlebere
Merlin - 1 Durlston
Grey Plover - 21 Stanpit
Black-Tailed Godwit - 1160 Middlebere
Green Sandpiper - 1 Middlebere
Woodcock - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 1 Durlston, 2 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head
Mediterranean Gull - 1000+ reported from The Fleet
Short-Eared Owl - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Richard's Pipit - 1 at a private site near Abbotsbury
Water Pipit - 1 Priory Marsh
White Wagtail - 1 Priory Marsh
Swallow - 1 Durlston, 1 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill
Wheatear - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Portland (Perryfields)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Warren Hill
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 2 Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Portland (Pennsylvania Castle)
Snow Bunting - 2 West Bexington

Late news:  Bittern and 2 Water Pipit at Radipole yesterday.
Snow Bunting at West Bexington © Mike Morse
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Sightings - Sunday 17th November 2013

Black Brant - 2 Ferrybridge
SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay/Redhorn Quay
Great Northern Diver - 2 Christchurch Hbr, 3 Ferrybridge, 3 Studland
Black-Throated Diver - 1 Studland
Red-Necked Grebe - 1 Portland Hbr
Balearic Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Great White Egret - 1 Portland Bill
Hen Harrier - 1-2 Middlebere
Grey Plover - 4 Brands Bay
Knot - 4 Brands Bay
Woodcock - 1 Rushcombe Bottom
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Little Gull - 1 Ferrybridge
Swallow - 2 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Hengistbury Head, 3 Portland Bill
Wheatear - 1 Durlston Head
Firecrest - 1 Durlston Head, 1 Portland Bill
Crossbill - 12+ Morden Bog, 12 Throop Heath
Snow Bunting - 2 West Bexington
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Sightings - Saturday 16th November 2013

Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 1 Portland Harbour
SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay/Brownsea Island
Velvet Scoter - 2 Hengistbury Head
Egyptian Goose - 7 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 1 Brands Bay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Red Kite - 2 Ashmore
Hen Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel, 2 Middlebere
Marsh Harrier - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 Langton Matravers
Starling - 1000+ north over Portland Bill
Twite - 1 at a private site near Abbotsbury Swannery
Lapland Bunting - 1 at a private site near Abbotsbury Swannery

Late news:  Hen Harrier - 2 Middlebere on Thursday

Black Redstart at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Hen Harrier at Middlebere on Thursday © Dave Hill

Hen Harrier at Middlebere on Thursday © Dave Hill

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Sightings - Friday 15th November 2013

Pale-bellied Brent - 3 The Fleet
Black Brant - 1 The Fleet
SURF SCOTER - 1 imm. Brand's Bay 
Goosander - 2 past West Bexington
Red-throated Diver - West Bexington
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Durlston CP.
Merlin - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Golden Plover - 130 Monkeys Jump (Maiden Castle)
Caspian Gull - 1 1st/w Avon Causeway (flying into pig field)
Woodpigeon - 2000 over Lytchett Minster
Richard's Pipit - 1 Portland Bill (field by Obs)
Hawfinch - 1 over West Bay
Lapland Bunting - 1 over West Bay
Snow Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Hd.

Snow Bunting Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Thursday 14th November 2013

Red Kite - 5 Sutton Waldron
Hen Harrier - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Merlin - 1 Morden Bog, 1 Upwey
Sandwich Tern - 2 Studland
Short-Eared Owl - 2 Portland Bill
Wood Pigeon - 45000 west over Christchurch Harbour
Richard's Pipit - 1 Portland Bill
Swallow - 1 Portland Bill, 2 Studland
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 2 Portland Bill, 1 Winspit
Firecrest - 3+ Durlston, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Portland Bill

Kingfisher ringed yesterday at Longham Lakes © Roger Peart

Kestrel at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

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Sightings - Wednesday 13th November 2013

Black Brant - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Scaup - 3 Lodmoor
Common Scoter - 100+ Hengistbury Hd, 7 Studland Bay
SURF SCOTER - 1 imm. Brand's Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 West Bexington
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Studland Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 West Bexington
Black-necked Grebe - 33 Poole Hbr/Studland Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Merlin - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Little Gull - 3 Chesil Cove
Sandwich Tern - 1 Poole Hbr. mouth.
Stock Dove - 72 Lytchett Bay (site record)
Woodpigeon - 3800+ Lytchett Bay, 3200 over Stanpit Marsh
Skylark - 72 Hengistbury Hd.
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Black Redstart - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Jackdaw - 130 Hengistbury Hd.
Starling - 2000 in off the sea Portland Bill, 55 Lytchett Bay.
 
Dartford Warbler- Wareham Forest © Will Bown

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Sightings - Tuesday 12th November 2013

Common Scoter - 100 on sea Hengistbury  Hd.
SURF SCOTER - 1 imm. Brand's Bay
Goosander - 1 redhead Sturminster Marshall GP.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Mudeford Quay
Black-necked Grebe - 15 Studland Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay, 1 Pirates Cove (Fleet), 1 Mudeford Quay.
Merlin - 1 Durlston CP, 1 over the Batters Hengistury Hd.
Great Skua - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Little Gull - 20 Weymouth Bay
Short-eared Owl - 1 Durlston CP.
Black Redstart - 3 Hengistbury Hd, 1 m. Winspit, 1 Durlston CP.
Snow Bunting - 1 Hengistbury Hd by Groyne S1.

A little Vis Mig today came mainly from Durlston CP.
Woodlark - 2 Durlston CP.
Sand Martin - 1 Durlston CP (latest on record for site)
Swallow - 7 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
House Martin - 3 Durlston CP.
Blackbird - 50 Durlston CP.
Fieldfare - 6 Durlston CP.
Song Thrush - 14 Durlston CP.
Redwing - 250 Kingcombe, 202 Lytchett Bay, 102 Durlston CP.
Firecrest - 2 Durlston CP.
Chaffinch - 320 Durlston CP.
Brambling - 11Durlston CP.
Goldfinch - 2070 Durlston CP.
Siskin - 112 Durlston CP.
Linnet -  375 Durlston CP.

 
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Sightings - Monday 11th November 2013

A major movement of Little Gulls took place today.

Common Scoter - 95 past Durlston
Goosander - 2 through Weymouth Bay, 4 Mudeford Quay
Great Northern Diver - 3 Shell Bay, 2 Mudeford Quay
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill, 2 past Durlston
Grey Phalarope - 1 Ferrybridge
Sanderling - 13 Pilot's Point
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Mudeford Quay
Great Skua - 44 past Portland Bill, 1 Weymouth Bay
Arctic Skua - 13 past Portland Bill, 2 over Ferrybridge
Pomarine Skua - 4 past Portland Bill
Kittiwake - 170 past Durlston
Little Gull - 1,138 past Portland Bill  (10 times the previous day record) including a single flock of 200, 320 at Ferrybridge, 66 through Weymouth Bay, 65 at Chesil Cove, 50 past Branksome Chine
Arctic Tern - 1 Portland Harbour
Little Auk - 1 Chesil Cove
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill




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Sightings - Sunday 10th November 2013

SURF SCOTER - 1 Brands Bay
Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury
Pintail - 140 Rodden Hive
Red-breasted Merganser - 92 Brands Bay
Goosander  - 4 Stanpit Marsh
Red Kite - 1 over Highcliffe and Poole, 2 over Rodden Hive
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
Spoonbill - 27 Arne, 10 Holes Bay
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 21 Studland Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Brands Bay
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay, 3 Studland Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 Shell Bay
Black-throated Diver - 1 Fitzworth Point Poole Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Lyme Regis Cobb
Wood Pigeon - 72,665 over Poole; 32,800 over Christchurch Harbour; 4500 Boyshill
Black Redstart - 1 Poundbury, 4 Portland Bill, 1 Abbotsbury, 1 Portesham
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Weston Portland
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Langton Matravers
Firecrest - 8 Abbotsbury Gardens, 1 Portland Bill, 1 ringed in a garden in Broadstone, 1 PC World Drain
Hawfinch - 3 over Durlston

Reed Bunting at Hengistbury Head copyright Joe Murphy
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Sightings - Saturday 9th November 2013

SURF SCOTER - 1 Brand's Bay
Common Scoter - 40 off Hengistbury Head
Merlin - 1 Morden Bog
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 2 Brand's Bay
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Balearic Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Wood Pigeon - 20000 over Christchurch Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Hengistbury Head
Firecrest -  1 Portland Obs, 2 Hengistbury Head
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Sightings - Friday 8th November 2013

SURF SCOTER - 1 Brand's Bay
Merlin - 1 Durlston
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay
Balearic Shearwater - 3 past Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Durlston
Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill, 2 past Hengistbury Head
Swallow - 1 over Durlston
Black Redstart -  4 Portland, 2 Durlston
Northern Wheatear - 1 Durlston
Firecrest - 3 Durlston, 2 Portland, 1 Hengistbury Head
Goldfinch - 1585 over Durlston
Hawfinch - 1 over Durlston
Crossbills - 4 over Durlston


Surf Scoter copyright Steve Smith

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Sightings - Thursday 7th November 2013

Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Surf Scoter - 1 Brands Bay
Hen Harrier - Middlebere
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 Barry Road, Broadstone
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Avalanche Road
Dusky Warbler - 1Portland
Black Redstart - 1 Bridging camp, Wyke Regis; 1 Christchurch harbour


Surf scoter, Poole Harbour (c) Paul Morton

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Sightings - Wednesday 6th November 2013

Balearic Shearwater - 3 Portland
Sooty Searwater - 1 Portland
Great Northern Diver - 5 Weymouth Bay; 1 Mudeford
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Leach's  Petrel -  I Mudeford
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
Spoonbill - 24 Arne
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Sandsfoot Castle
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Sightings - Tuesday 5th November 2013

Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Black-throated Diver - Hengistbury Head
Red-throated Diver - Hengistbury Head
Merlin - 1 Milborne St Andrew; 1 Durlston
Firecrest - 1 Upton CP
Woodlark -1 Ferrybridge
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Durlson (heard)
Swallow - 3 Durlston

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Sightings - Monday 4th November 2013

Spoonbill - 26 Poole Harbour
Sabine's Gull - 1 Cogden Beach
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland harbour
Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Poole harbour
Scaup - 1 Abbotsbury
Merlin - 1 Cogden beach
Osprey - 1 Weymouth 
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 North Hide, Radipole; 1 Avalanche Road hump; 1 Abbotsbury; 1 Durlston
Firecrest - 3 Abbotsbury
Black Redstart - 2 Ferndown; 1 Hengistbury Head


Black redstart, Hengistbury Head, (c) Joe Murphy






























































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Sightings - Sunday 3rd November 2013

Velvet Scoter - 2 past Hengistbury Head
Red-necked Grebe - 1 off Portland Castle
Merlin - 1 Ferrybridge
Great Skua - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Sabine's Gull - 1 commuting between Chesil Cove and Cogden Beach
Roseate Tern - 1 Avon Beach/Mudeford Quay
Arctic Tern - 1 juvenile still at Ferrybridge
Black Redstart - 2 Motcombe (near Shaftesbury), 1 Chesil Cove
 
Cormorant at Iford Bridge © Clinton Whale
Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Andy Grinter
 
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Sightings - Saturday 2nd November 2013

Black Brant - 2 Ferrybridge
Mandarin Duck - 1 drake Lodmoor
Red-throated Diver - 1 Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury Head
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Manx Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Hen Harrier - 2 males Wareham at mouth of R. Frome
Jack Snipe - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh
Pomarine Skua - 1 Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 2 Portland Bill, 1 over Ferrybridge
Sabine's Gull - 1 Cogden Beach
Mediterranean Gull - 450 in Weymouth Bay
Little Gull - 1 past Chesil Cove
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Arctic Tern - 1 Ferrybridge
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Black Redstart - 2 Reap Lane (Portland)
Ring Ouzel - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed at Durlston CP, 1 Winspit Valley
Wheatear - 1 Ferrybridge
Firecrest - 10 Abbotsbury Gardens, 2 Winspit Valley, 2 Durlston CP, at least 1 Brownsea Island

Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Steven Carey
 
Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Chris & Joanne Courtaux
 
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Sightings - Friday 1st November 2013

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge
Red-necked Grebe - 1 still in Portland Harbour
Spoonbill - 3 Holes Bay
Merlin - 1 Portland Bill
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Portland Bill
Pomarine Skua - 1 off Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Sabine's Gull - 1 Cogden Beach (photo below)
Roseate Tern - 1 Mudeford Quay
Black Redstart -  2 Verne Prison (Portland), 1 Portland Bill, 1 Durlston, 1 West Lulworth, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Wheatear - 1 West Bexington
Firecrest - 4 Durlston, 1 Portland

Sabine's Gull at Cogden Beach © Mike Morse
 
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