Sightings - Saturday 24th January 2015

White-Fronted Goose - 1 Radipole Lake.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Rodden Hive among 1000+ Brents.
Velvet Scoter - 2 past Hengistbury Head.
Scaup - 1 f Longham Lakes.
Long-Tailed Duck - 1 Seacombe.
Goosander - 5 Cowards Marsh.
Red-Throated Diver - 18 past Hengistbury Head (17w, 1e).
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 2 Holes Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Ogber, 2 Radipole Lake.
Hen Harrier - 1 Greenlands Farm (Studland), 1 Middlebere.
Merlin - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Middlebere.
Golden Plover - 80 Rodden Hive.
Greenshank - 1 Rodden Hive.
Jack Snipe - 1 Stanpit.
Woodcock - 2 Studland.
Caspian Gull - 1 Longham Lakes departed NE.
Water Pipit - 2 Stanpit.
Scandinavian Rock Pipit - 2 of this type at Stanpit.
Black Redstart - 1 Langton Herring, 1 Portland Castle.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Studland.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Chamberlayne's Heath (Bovington military training area), 1 Godlingstone Heath.
Hooded Crow - 1 still on Portland (near The Grove pig farm).

White-Fronted Goose at Radipole Lake © Gregor Tims

Raven at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy