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