Dorset Birds: January 2017

Sightings - Tuesday 31st January 2017

Goosander - 13 Portland Harbour
Long-tailed Duck - 2 (possibly 3) on the Fleet at Abbotsbury
Smew - 1 Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 5 Portland Bill
Cattle Egret - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery meadows
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields (French's Pool)

Sightings - Monday 30th January 2017

Scaup - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Eider - 2 Portland Harbour
Goosander - 12 Portland Harbour
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Radipole (Buddleia Loop)
Cattle Egret - 1 opposite entrance to Norris Mill Farm (near Kingston Maurward)
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island lagoon
Black-necked Grebe - 17+ Portland Harbour, 12 Studland Bay
Ruff - 1 Upton CP
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Bay
Siberian Chiffchaff - Poole (PC World drain)

Sightings - Sunday 29th January 2017

Eider - 2 Portland Harbour
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 4 Hengistbury Head
Cattle Egret - 1 Poxwell
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Black-necked Grebe - 10+ Portland Harbour
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Lytchett Bay
Siberian Chiffchaff - 2 Dorchester sewage works
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Marie Road area of Dorchester

Rock Pipit - Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Sightings - Saturday 28th January 2017

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 4 Ferrybridge
Goosander - 10 roosting Lodmoor
Eider - 2 Ferrybridge
Smew - 1 Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 10 past Hengistbury Head
CATTLE EGRET - 3 Abbotsbury end of railway walk, 1 Poxwell
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 Middlebere
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Marie Road Dorchester

Sightings - Friday 27th January 2017

Barnacle Goose - 14 Poole Harbour from Bird Boat
Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 5 Ferrybridge
Goosander - 12 Ferrybridge, also Weymouth Harbour entrance
Long-tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury
Scaup - 12 Abbotsbury
Smew - 1 Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 32 past Branksome Chine
CATTLE EGRET - 1 Puddletown Forest area, 4 Nottington
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Cabot Lane Poole

Sightings - Thursday 26th January 2017

Barnacle Goose - 14 Poole Harbour from Bird Boat
Scaup - 4 Abbotsbury, 1 Lodmoor
Smew - 1 Holes Bay
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields/Bay
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
CATTLE EGRET - 3 Abbotsbury
Richard's Pipit - 2 Abbotsbury
Black Redstart - 2 Portland
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Windsor Road Dorchester
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Talbot Lane Poole

Sightings - Wednesday 25th January 2017

Long-tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury
Scaup - 10 Abbotsbury
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor
CATTLE EGRET - 4 Nottington, 1 Lorton Valley
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Bay
Black Guillemot - 1 West Cliffs, Portland
Water Pipit - 5 Overcombe Corner
Corvid spps. - thousands at a roost in Lorton Valley/northern end of Lodmoor

Sightings - Tuesday 24th January 2017

Whooper Swan - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 8 Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Road)
Long-tailed Duck - 2+ Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Road)
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Cogden Beach
Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury from New Barn Road, 1 Portesham-Abbotsbury Old Railway line walk
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Portland Bill
Short-eared Owl - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 (probably blythi) still Highcliffe, west of Cliffhanger car park

Cattle and Little Egrets - Abbotsbury © Jayson Grove

Cattle Egret - Abbotsbury © Jayson Grove

Sightings - Monday 23rd January 2017

Whooper Swan - 1 Cogden Beach & West Bexington then Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 12 Lodmoor, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Road)
Long-tailed Duck - 3 Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from New Barn Road)
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Cogden Beach
Cattle Egret - 5 west end of Buckland Ripers, 3 Abbotsbury (Chapel Lane)
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 2 Holes Bay
Richard's Pipit - 2 Abbotsbury in field behind cafe, view only from footpath
Waxwing - c12 on farmland near Bridport hospital

Whooper Swan - West Bexington © Mike Morse

Redshank - Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Curlew - Holes Bay © Tony Adamcik

Spotted Redshank - Holes Bay © Tony Adamcik

Sightings - Sunday 22nd January 2017

Black Brant - Rodden Hive
Scaup - 6 Lodmoor
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Cogden Beach
Bittern - 1 Radipole
Cattle Egret - 3 Abbotsbury viewed from New Barn Road
Spoonbill - 13 Shipstal Point
Hen Harrier - 2 Wyke Down, 1 Arne Moors, 1 Cranborne, 1 Maiden Castle
Golden Plover - 500 Maiden Castle
Jack Snipe - 2 Swineham, 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Fields
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Bay
Richard's Pipit - 1 Abbotsbury in field behind cafe, view only from footpath
Water Pipit - 7 Lodmoor
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Cogden Beach
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Norden Sewage Farm
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Sugar Hill (Wareham Forest)

Marsh Harrier - Stanpit © Joe Murphy

Common Gull - Stanpit © Joe Murphy

Cormorant - The Fleet © Jayson Grove

Red-breasted Merganser - Holes Bay © David Wareham

Sightings - Saturday 21st January 2017

Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Great Northern Diver - 3 Ower Bay (Poole Harbour)
Slavonian Grebe - 4 Ower Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 12 Middle Beach, 6 Ower Bay
Bittern - 1 Radipole
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 5 Lytchett Bay
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Bay
Short-eared Owl - 2 Portland
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Blacknor
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Sugar Hill (Wareham Forest), ringed on left leg

Starling murmuration at Shell Bay, Studland still performing to the crowds - c12,000 birds best viewed from between 16:40 and 17:00. Also c8,000 birds at Lodmoor RSPB.

Great White Egret - Longham Lakes © Martin Wood

Great Grey Shrike - Sugar Hill © Roger Hewitt

Sightings - Friday 20th January 2017

Eider - 2 Hengistbury Head
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Goosander - 13 Ferrybridge/Portland Harbour
Red-throated Diver - 17 Hengistbury Head, 4 Portland Bill
Bittern - 1 Radipole
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 11 Lyme Regis
Green Sandpiper - 1 Longham Lakes
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Bay
Little Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Weymouth Bay
Black Redstart - 1 Lyme Regis, 1 Poundbury
Water Pipit - 5+ Lodmoor (from Overcombe car park)
Great Grey Shrike - Cranborne Common

Little Grebe at Canford Bridge, Wimborne © Roger Peart

Pied Wagtail at Shore Road, Poole © Roger Peart

Marsh Harrier at Stanpit © Joe Murphy

Indoor Talk - Spurn Bird Observatory Friday 20th January at 7.30

Spurn Bird Observatory - its Work and its Birds

Rob Adams, Paul Collins & Nick Whitehouse

The Spurn Peninsula in East Yorkshire projects over three miles into the North Sea, so making it an ideal location for monitoring bird migration along the east coast of the United Kingdom. Spurn Bird Observatory was established in 1946 and has recently taken the exciting steps of purchasing a new observatory building and publishing an impressive book, The Birds of Spurn. This talk, which covers the workings of the observatory as well as accounts of the typical birding and ringing year, will be delivered by the Observatory Chairman, Rob Adams, the full-time Observatory Warden, Paul Collins, and fellow Committee Member and recent Dorset resident, Nick Whitehouse. With over 391 species recorded, expect some exciting birders’ tales to whet your appetite for a visit north.

The above event will be at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, 39 Christchurch Rd, Bournemouth, BH1 3NS
http://bnss.org.uk/

There will be an opportunity to purchase copies of The Birds of Spurn by Andy Roadhouse which recently picked up the BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year award (see below from the BTO website);

Winner: The Birds of Spurn by Andy Roadhouse

The Spurn Bird Observatory Trust, 2016.

Stretching to over 700 pages, this hugely impressive volume combines a comprehensive and well-organised text with a superb assemblage of artwork and photographs (the majority of which were taken at Spurn). There is the expected detailed analysis of records for each species and the results are presented clearly and effectively so that the reader can take in the key points without being submerged by a sea of statistics. The overall result is a book that will provide the definitive work of reference for this site for years to come as well as being a pleasure to read. Those with a particular interest in Spurn will no doubt already own a copy but it deserves a far wider audience. Anyone with an interest in the work of bird observatories, bird migration, rarities, coastal birding or patch watching will learn a great deal. It sets the bar very high indeed for future books of this type.

Read our full review

All welcome but if not a member of DBC or CHOG, admission £2.

Sightings - Thursday 19th January 2017

Eider - 2 Hengistbury Head
Red-throated Diver - 10 Hengistbury Head, 1 West Bexington
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 5 Lytchett Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Lytchett Bay
Goshawk - 1 Arne Moors
Golden Plover - c2500 Maiden Castle
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Bay
Sandwich Tern - 4 Hengistbury Head
Short-eared Owl - 1 Wareham Channel
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Cogden Beach
Waxwing - 16 over Charmouth
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Marie Road area, Dorchester
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP
Water Pipit - 2 Overcombe end of Lodmoor

Razorbill at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Sandwich Tern at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Sightings - Wednesday 18th January 2017

Barnacle Goose - c40 Christchurch Harbour, 13 Ower Bay
Eider - 2 Mudeford Quay
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Goosander - 1 Portland Harbour
Red-throated Diver - 16 Mudeford Quay
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Harbour
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 24 Poole Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 12 Portland Harbour, 10+ Poole Harbour
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail at Arne
Purple Sandpiper - 8+ Portland Bill
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Bay
Little Gull - 2 off Mudeford Quay
Firecrest - 1 West Bexington, 1 PC World drain Poole
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Cogden Beach
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 West Bexington
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Chesil Cove

Goldeneye at Poole Park © David Wareham

Sightings - Tuesday 17th January 2017

Black Brant - 1 Langton Herring
Smew - 1 redhead Holes Bay
Red-throated Diver - 15 Branscombe
Black-throated Diver - 1 Branscombe
Great Northern Diver - 1 Branscombe
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Ower Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 7+ Portland Harbour, 7 off Hamworthy, 6 Studland Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 male & 1 juvenile Milborne St. Andrew
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Jack Snipe - 1 Milborne St. Andrew
Firecrest - 1 Norden sewage works
Ring Ouzel - 1 reported Tamar Close, Trickett's Cross
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Norden sewage works, 1 Radipole
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Marie Road area, Dorchester
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Castle, 1 Portland Bill

Sightings - Monday 16th January 2017

Scaup - 1 Lodmoor.
Common Scoter - 1 past Durlston NR, 8 past Portland Bill.
Eider - 1 Portland Harbour.
Goosander - 1 Mudeford Quay, 9 Weymouth Bay.
Red-Throated Diver - 4 past Durlston NR, 16 past Portland Bill.
Black-Throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill.
Black-Necked Grebe - 13+ Portland Harbour.
Razorbill - c.4000 Portland Bill.
Waxwing - 1 Canford Heath.
Water Pipit - 1-2 Lodmoor.
Black Redstart - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Hengistbury sandspit, 1 Portland Bill.
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Lodmoor.

Sightings - Sunday 15th January 2017

Barnacle Goose - 14 Arne Moors.
Common Scoter - 28 past Portland Bill.
Red-Throated Diver - 19 past Portland Bill.
Black-Necked Grebe - 2 Shell Bay.
Hen Harrier - 1 Middlebere.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Middlebere, 1 Swineham, 2 Wick.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Golden Plover - 1 Hartland Moor.
Knot - 9 Holes Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 4 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit.
Sandwich Tern - 2 Shell Bay.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Hartland Moor.
Firecrest - 1 Studland.
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Marie Road, Dorchester.

Turnstone at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Sightings - Saturday 14th January 2017

Black Brant - 1 Middlebere.
Pintail - 13 Longham Lakes is an unusual record for the site.
Green-winged Teal - 1 still Lytchett Fields RSPB
Smew - 1 Holes Bay.
Great Northern Diver - 2 Poole Harbour mouth, 2 inside Poole Harbour.
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Shell Bay, c.7 Poole Harbour.
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes.
Cattle Egret - 4 Nottington, 2 Litton Cheney along Cox's Lane near Rowden Farm.
Hen Harrier - 1 Wick.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Poole Harbour.
Merlin - 1 Frome valley.
Jack Snipe - 1 Shell Bay.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 still Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay.
Little Auk - 1 reported at Poole Harbour mouth remains unconfirmed.
Starling - many in a murmuration at Studland.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill (Dorchester), 1 Gillingham.
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Louds Mill (Dorchester).
Firecrest - 1+ Brownsea Island, 1 Gillingham, 2 Hengistbury Head.
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 still 26 Marie Road, Dorchester.

Firecrest at Gillingham © John Howell

Jay at Hengistbury Head © Chris Minvalla

Sightings - Friday 13th January 2017

Eider - 1 off Mudeford Quay.
Smew - redhead in Holes Bay.
Goosander - 1 on River Frome near Holme Bridge.
Red-throated Diver - 2 past Mudeford Quay.
Peregrine - 1 Athelhampton, 1 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 2 on River Frome near Holme Bridge.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Sandwich Tern - 2-3 Stanpit, 2 Studland.
Black Redstart - 1 Poole, 1 Poundbury.
Firecrest - 3 by River Frome near Holme Bridge, 1 Studland.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Cogden Beach.

Sightings - Thursday 12th January 2017

Black Brant - 1 Ferrybridge.
Eider - 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge.
Common Scoter - 8 past Portland Bill.
Velvet Scoter - 2 Christchurch Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 7 past Portland Bill, 4w past Christchurch Harbour.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 15 Ferrybridge.
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.
Manx Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill.
Great Skua - 1 past Durlston Head.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Poundbury.

News from yesterday:- Red Kite - 2 over Fontmell Down.

Sightings - Wednesday 11th January 2017

Brent Goose - c1000 Middlebere.
Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Eider - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Smew - 1 Redhead Holes Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Arne, 1 Stanpit Marsh.
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Arne.
Avocet - c500 Middlebere.
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB.

Black-tailed Godwit – Stanpit Marsh © Joe Murphy.

Sightings - Tuesday 10th January 2017

Black Brant - 2 Ferrybridge.
Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 640 Ferrybridge.
Eider - 2 Ferrybridge.
Smew - 1 Redhead Holes Bay.
Red-throated Diver - 10 past Portland Bill, 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Studland Bay.
Black-necked Grebe - 16 Studland Bay.
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake.
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Radipole Lake, 1 Holes Baay.
Lapwing - c400 Stanpit Marsh.
Sanderling - 34 Bramble Bush Bay.
Purple Sandpiper - 5 Portland Bill.
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Sandwich Tern - 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Water Pipit - 1 nr Priory Marsh.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 East Holme.

Great White Egret – Longham Lakes © Dave Hill.

Kestrel – Longham Lakes © Dave Hill.

Sightings - Monday 9th January 2017

Green-winged Teal - 1 still Lytchett Fields.
Scaup - 1 off north shore Arne.
Eider - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 6 feeding off Portland Bill, 4 Christchurch Harbour, 3 settled 1 past.
Spoonbill - 7 Long Island.
Marsh Harrier - 3 over Middlebere, 2 over Swineham.
Hen Harrier - 1 Arne.
Merlin - 1 Shipstal.
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Christchurch Harbour.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 still Lytchett Fields.
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Pomarine Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Sandwich Tern - 3 Christchurch Harbour.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill.

Sightings - Sunday 8th January 2017

Pale-bellied Brent - 1 with Db Brent Herbury Gore
Black Brant - 1 with Db Brent Arne
White-fronted Goose - 1 with Greylags Bockhampton, nr Christchurch
Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields
Eider - 3 Portland Hbr, 1 off Hengisbury Hd.
Smew - redhead Arne Bay with Goldeneye.
Goosander - 12 off Weymouth Sea Front
Great Northern Diver - 1 Brand's Bay, 1 off Middle Beach Studland, 1 Weymouth Bay
Bittern - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Radipole Lake
Cattle Egret - 1 near Winkton Christchurch, 1 Litton Cheney, 1 Venn Fm nr Melbourne Port.
Great White Egret - 1 Studland
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Weymouth Bay off Lodmoor, 1 off Middle Beach Studland
Black-necked Grebe - 15+ Middle Beach Studland, 12 off Sandsfoot Castle
Hen Harrier - 2 ringtails 1 male west Poole Hbr.
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Sandbanks Haven Groynes
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Jack Snipe - 1 Poole Park, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill
Arctic Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Slepe Heath
Firecrest - 2 Lytchett Heath
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Lytchett Heath mid-day not seen later
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 PC World drain Poole
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Marie Rd Dorchester
Black Redstart - 1 Baiter Park Poole, 1 Chesil Cove

Sightings - Saturday 7th January 2017

Green-winged Teal - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Eider - 1 from Mudeford Quay
Red-throated Diver - 1 on sea off Mudeford Quay
Bittern - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Radipole Lake, 1 Lodmoor
Cattle Egret - 3 Nottington Upway, 1 Rowden Fm off Cox's Lane east of Litton Cheney
Hen Harrier - 2 Hartland Moor
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Hartland Moor
Chiffchaff - 30 Abbotsbury Sewage Fm.
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 today Marie Rd. Dorchester

Sightings - Friday 6th January 2017

American Wigeon - 1 reported seen in Holes Bay from Upton Country Park
Eider - 3 Portland Hbr.
Red-throated Diver - 3 past Durlston CP.
Great Northern Diver - 3 Weymouth Bay off Overcombe, 1 Durlston CP.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Sandwich Tern - 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Barleycrates Lane Portland
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Dorchester from Cambridge Rd today
Black Redstart - 1 Barleycrates Lane Portland

Sightings - Thursday 5th January 2017

Green-winged Teal - 1 drake Lytchett Fields
Scaup - 1+ Abbotsbury Swannery
Eider - 2 Portland Hbr.
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Black-necked Grebe - 16 off Middle Beach Studland, 4 Portland Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 Maiden Castle
Purple Sandpiper - 10 Pulpit Rocks Portland Bill
Spotted Redstart - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Firecrest - 2 Hengistbury Hd.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 nr Greenlands Fm Studland
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Sherborne sewage works
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wootton Fitzpaine
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Marie Rd Dorchester
Black Redstart - 2 Chesil Cove, 1 Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 2 Lodmoor seen from Overcombe

Sightings - Wednesday 4th January 2017

Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Spoonbill - 20 Arne
Cattle Egret - 1 Bockhampton Dairy
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Dorchester
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Cogden Beach

Black-tailed Godwit copyright Joe Murphy

Sightings - Tuesday 3rd January 2017

Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields
Long-tailed Duck - 3 Abbotsbury
Scaup - 10 Abbotsbury
Goosander - 11 Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 11 Portland Harbour, 11 Studland Bay
Great White Egret - 1 Little Sea
Cattle Egret - 1 Bockhampton Dairy
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Golden Plover - 2000 Maiden Castle area
Sanderling - 45 Bramble Bush Bay
Richard's Pipit - 2 Abbotsbury
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Dorchester

Stonechat Hengistbury Head copyright Joe Murphy

Sightings - Monday 2nd January 2017

Long-tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury
Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury
Red Kite - 6 over Upton CP
Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
Spoonbill - 18 Arne
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Richard's Pipit - 2 Abbotsbury
Magpie - 109 Hatch Pond
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Dorchester

Sightings - Sunday 1st January 2017

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Brand's Bay
Barnacle Goose - 14 Swineham
Green-winged Teal - 1 Lytchett Fields
Eider - 2 Shell Bay
Long-tailed Duck - 2 Abbotsbury
Goosander - 12 off Baiter
Scaup - 9 Abbotsbury
Black-necked Grebe - 19 Middle Beach, 2 Shell Bay, 2 Poole Harbour
Red Kite - 1 over Broadstone
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 1 Bockhampton Dairy
Golden Plover - 1500 Maiden Castle
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Mediterranean Gull - 530 A354 Dorchester
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Canford Heath
Rose-coloured Starling - 1 Dorchester
Firecrest - 2 Arne