Sightings - Saturday 16th January 2016

Barnacle Goose - 2 Rodden Hive.
Scaup - 1 Lodmoor.
Long-Tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery.
Smew - 1 Holes Bay.
Egyptian Goose - 8 over Lytchett Bay may be a Poole Harbour record.
Great Northern Diver - 4 Poole Harbour, 1 past Portland Bill, 4 Portland Harbour, 1 Wareham Channel, 4 Weymouth Bay.
Red-Throated Diver - 13 past Portland Bill.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Cutcleaves Cove.
Black-Necked Grebe - 7 Poole Harbour, 6+ Portland Harbour, 1 Weymouth Bay.
Spoonbill - 9 N. Holes Bay, 17 Shipstal.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lodmoor, 2 Radipole Lake, 3-4 Swineham.
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 west of Tollard Royal.
Grey Plover - 80 Brownsea Island, 12 Stanpit.
Jack Snipe - 1 Moonfleet.
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 6 Brownsea Island.
Spotted Redshank - 10 Brownsea Island, 2 N. Holes Bay, 1 Stanpit.
Grey Phalarope - 1 Cutcleaves Cove.
Short-Eared Owl - 2 Eye Meads (Wimborne), 1+ Portland Bill.
Little Owl - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Black Redstart - 1 Cerne Abbas, 1 Langton Herring.
Firecrest - 10+ Abbotsbury Gardens, 3-4 Brownsea Island, 2 Norden sewage works, 2 

Portland Bill, 1 Portland The Grove.
Brambling - 40+ Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest


Other news:  The skull of a probable Great White Egret was found at Arne today.

Brambling at Sugar Hill © Brett Spencer


Brambling at Sugar Hill © Brett Spencer



Grey Phalarope at Cuttcleaves Cove © Brett Spencer

Smew at Holes Bay © Brett Spencer

Goldeneyes at Poole Park © Brett Spencer