Sightings - Saturday 7th February 2015

Greenland White-fronted Goose - 1 Abbotsbury
Scaup - 1 South Longham Lake, 2 Abbotsbury
Long-tailed Duck - 4 Rodden Hive
Goldeneye - 1 South Longham Lake
Red-throated Diver - 11 flying west off Christchurch Harbour
Bittern - 1-3 at mouth of Piddle
Little Egret - 15 Lytchett Bay
Hen Harrier - 2 Hartland Moor
Avocet - 305 Lytchett Bay
Golden Plover - 40 west past Rodden Hive
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill
Black-tailed Godwit - c.250 Lytchett Bay
Common Gull - 50 Lytchett Bay
Fieldfare - 100+ Hartland Moor, 150 Briantspuddle
Redwing - 200 Briantspuddle


Hen Harrier update from Peter Hadrill: current estimated Poole Harbour population 5 - 1 adult male, 1 sub-adult male, 1 juvenile male, 2 females
 
Little Grebe at Canford Bridge © Roger Peart