Sightings - Wednesday 31st January 2018

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Portland Harbour
Scaup - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery (NB Swannery closed so view only from New Barn Road)
Velvet Scoter - Poole Harbour
Black-throated Diver -1 Portland Harbour from Hamm Beach
Great Northern Diver - 3 Poole Harbour
Spoonbill - c20 Poole Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Poole Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Poole Harbour
Ruff - 2 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 1 Holton Lee, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Greenshank - 1 Holton Lee, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
(Glaucous Gull -  the bird seen recently at Abbotsbury Swannery succumbed today due to a fish hook in it's throat)
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head
Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Hawfinch - 12 Delcombe Wood (nr Bulbarrow Hill)

Goldcrest, Portesham © Sue Wingett

Great Northern Diver at Poole Park © David Wareham

Ruff at Lodmoor RSPB © Trevor Wilkinson

Greenshank at Holton Lee © Clive Hargrave

Sightings - Tuesday 30th January 2018

Scaup - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Velvet Scoter - 1 off Brownsea Island
Goldeneye - 6 Poole Park, 4 Bramblebush Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 Studland Bay
Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour, 1 Studland Bay
Great Northern Diver - 4 Portland Harbour, 1 Shell Bay, 1 Poole Park
Spoonbill - 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Cutcleaves Cove, The Fleet
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Shell Bay, 8 Studland Bay
Sanderling - c30 Bramblebush Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Portland Bill, 2 Sandbanks
Caspian Gull - 1 off Poole Quay
Glaucous Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog NNR
Firecrest - 1 Branksome Chine
Black Redstart - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Southbourne
Hawfinch - 28 Bryanston Cliff Wood, 2+ Lytchett Matravers

Curlew at Stanpit © Joe Murphy

Great Northern Diver at Poole Park © David Wareham



Hawfinch at Bryanston Cliff Wood © Michael Coleman

Sightings - Monday 29th January 2018

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Butterstreet Cove The Fleet.
Black Brant - Butterstreet Cove The Fleet
Velvet Scoter - 1 Bramblebush Bay Poole Hbr.
Black-throated Diver - 1 Bramblebush Bay, 1 off Portland Castle
Great Northern Diver - 1  still Poole Park
Spoonbill - 16 Hamworthy Park, 2 RSPB Lytchett Fields
Black-necked Grebe - 7 off Studland, 2 Bramblebush Bay
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Greenshank - 1 Brand's Bay
Glaucous Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Kinson sewage works
Hawfinch - 6 Stour Valley LNR

Dipper - Lyme Regis - © Roger Boswell 

Dipper - Lyme Regis - © Roger Boswell 

Sightings - Sunday 28th January 2018

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Moonfleet
Black Brant - 1 Moonfleet
Black-throated Diver - 1off Hamworthy Park
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Park
Spoonbill - 20 of Round Island, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Red-necked Grebe - 1 off Round Island
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog
Hooded Crow - 1 Manor Fm Studland Village
Firecrest - 1 Cattistock Churchyard, 1 Pennsylvania, 1 Branksome Chine, 1 Hengistbury Hd.
Hawfinch, 75 Bryanston Cliff Wood, 60+ Cattistock Churchyard, 4 Cemetery Rd Gillingham
Corn Bunting - 10+ Moonfleet

Common Buzzard - Upton CP © David Wareham

Great Northern Diver - Poole Park © David Wareham

Sightings - Saturday 27th January 2018

Spoonbill - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Crane - 2 over Stoborough
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 reported from Fisherman's Bank & Stanpit Marsh today
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Hawfinch - 10+ Kinson sewage works am, 7 Leigh Church, 2 St. Mary's Church Lytchett Matravers

Goldeneye - Poole Park © C. Jarvis

fem. Red-breasted Merganser - Poole Park © Roger Peart

Sightings - Friday 26th January 2018

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 2 Hamm Beach Portland Hbr.
Scaup - 7 Abbotsbury Swannery
Eider - 2 Mudeford Quay
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Lynch Cove Fleet
Black-throated Diver - 2 Hamm Beach Portland Hbr.
Great Northern Diver - 4 Hamm Beach, 1 off Bridging Camp, 1 Poole Park Lake
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 4 Lynch Cove Fleet, 1 Weymouth Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 8 Portland Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay
Common Crane - 3 over Thornhill Stalbridge
Golden Plover - 25 Milborne St Andrew
Ruff - 3 Lodmoor RSPB.
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Common Sandpiper - 1 Northeast Portland Hbr on sewage pipe.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Fisherman's Bank Chrichurch Hbr.
Greenshank - 1  Fisherman's Bank Chrichurch Hbr.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog NNR
Hooded Crow - 1 Manor Farm Studland village
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Kinson sewage works
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor Portland
Hawfinch - 27 Cattistock Church, 4 Blindfold Camp (MoD)( 2 Norden yesterday)

Goldeneye - Poole Park © David Wareham

Tufted Duck - Poole Park © Roger Peart

Great Northern Diver - Poole Park © C. Jarvis

Sightings - Thursday 25th January 2018

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Ferrybridge
Scaup - 1 Lodmoor
Goldeneye - 5 Poole Park Lake
Red-breasted Merganser - 4 Poole Park Lake
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Park Lark, 1 Ferrybridge
Fulmar - 5 Durlston
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit
Red Kite - 1 Bryanston Cliff Wood
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Stilt Sandpiper - 1Stanpit
Kittiwake - 1 Durlston
Iceland Gull - 1 Wyke Regis, flew towards Ferrybridge
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Stour Valley LNR by Kinson Sewage Works
Firecrest - 3 Church Opie Cove
Great Grey Shrike - Morden Bog
Black Redstart - 2 Durlston
Hawfinch - 21 Cattistock Churchyard, 14 Bryanston Cliff Wood, 3 Kingston Lacy, 3 Stour Valley LNR flew towards shopping area

Late news from yesterday: 2 Short-eared Owls Portland Bill still



Turnstone at Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Little Grebe at Poole Park Lake © David Wareham

Sightings - Wednesday 24th January 2018

Pintail - 12 Stanpit
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Cowards Marsh
Knot - 1 Cowards Marsh
Kittiwake - 1 off Hengistbury Head
Black Redstart - Durlston CP, near Tilly Whim caves
Hawfinch - 4 Symondsbury Churchyard, (ENE of Bridport)

Late news from yesterday - Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog NNR

Sightings - Tuesday 23rd January 2018

Goldeneye - 6 Poole Park Lake
Red-breasted Merganser - 2 Poole Park Lake
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Park Lake
Bittern - 1 Radipole
Spoonbill - 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail, Lytchett Bay
Marsh Harrier - 2 Wick
Avocet - 60 Lytchett Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Sandbanks
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Cowards Marsh
Sanderling - 1 Studland (colour ringed)
Iceland or Glaucous Gull - 1 Arne, flew over Arne Moors
Hawfinch - 110 Bryanston Cliff Woods, 4 Symondsbury Churchyard (ENE of Bridport),  2
Lytchett Matravers Church, 3 Puddletown at the Old Manor
Scaup - 3 drakes recently at Abbotsbury Swannery
Starling - A large murmuration over Tesco, Dorchester this evening.

Of interest: Osprey chick LS7 from last summer's Poole Harbour translocation project has been seen in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal yesterday. A journey of 4316 km!

Sightings - Monday 22nd January 2018

Black Brant - 1 Arne from Coombe Heath hide/Middlebere Lake
Great Northern Diver - 4 Portland Harbour

Black-throated Diver - 1 Billy Winters, Portland Harbour
Black Necked Grebe - 14 Portland Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Sandbanks, 2 Hengistbury Head
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Cowards Marsh Christchurch 
Greenshank - 1 Holton Lee
Black-tailed Godwit - 175 Stanpit

Fulmar - 3 Durlston

Spoonbill - 1 Frenches Pools island, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch
Marsh Harrier - 1 Holton Lee
Sanderling - 25 Sandbanks
Green Sandpiper - 1 Holton lee
Jack Snipe - 1 RSPB Lytchett Fields on Frenches Island
Woodlark - 1 Holton Lee

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Stour Valley LNR by Kinson Sewage Works

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Pennsylvania Castle

Firecrest - 1 Pennsylvania Castle, 1 Bestwall, Wareham, 1 Hengistbury Head

Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog
Hooded Crow - 1 Saturday, Manor Farm, Studland

Lesser Redpoll - 5 Holton Lee

Siskin - 45 Holton Lee

Hawfinch - 37 New Road, Lower Bryanston, 12 Cattistock Churchyard

Crossbill - 1 over Holton Lee

Hawfinch at Lower Bryanston © Michael Coleman

Bullfinch feeding in Bournemouth garden © David Wareham

                                       

Sightings - Sunday 21st January 2018

Brent Goose - 72 Pilots Point, Poole Harbour

Scaup - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery, 
Red Breasted Merganser - 7 Pilots Point, Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 off the  House Boats, Poole Harbour, 7 Poole Harbour from boat, 
Spoonbill - 17, Shipstal Point, Arne, 3 Brownsea Island lagoon, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch
Red Necked Grebe - 1 Poole Harbour from boat
Black Necked Grebe - 1 Poole Harbour from boat
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail West Poole Harbour
Goshawk - 1 West Poole Harbour
Merin -1 West Poole Harbour 
Grey Plover - 17 Pilots Point, Poole Harbour
Golden Plover - 1 Cowards Marsh, Christchurch
Knot - 1 Cowards Marsh, Christchurch
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Portland at the Bill
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Cowards Marsh, Christchurch
Spotted Redshank - 1 Cowards Marsh, Christchurch
Greenshank - 1 Poole Harbour from boat
Bar Tailed Godwit - 40 Poole Harbour from boat
Jack Snipe - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Little Gull - 1 Poole Harbour from boat
Sandwich tern - 1 Poole Harbour from boat

Razorbill - 1 Poole Harbour from boat

Guilemot - 1 Poole Harbour from boat
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch, 2 Waddock Watercress Beds
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Louds Mill Sewage Farm, Dorchester

Hawfinch - 48 New Road, Lower Bryanston, 5 South Perrott, 

Sightings - Saturday 20th January 2018

Scaup - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor 

Eider - 1 male Portland Harbour
Common Scoter - 1 Weymouth Bay
Red Throated Diver - 4 off the Bill, Portland
Black Throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour

Great Northern Diver - 3 Portland Harbour, 1 Jerrys Point, Poole Harbour, 1 Weymouth Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Knoll Beach car park, Studland

Black Necked Grebe - 4 off Knoll Beach car park, Studland, 1 Jerrys Point, Poole Harbour, 16 Portland Harbour
Red Necked Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Great Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch, 1 Lodmoor-(colour ringed bird)

Hen Harrier - 2 male, 1 female, West Poole Harbour

Merlin - 1 male, 1 female, West Poole Harbour, 1 Top Fields, Portland
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Portland at the Bill
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh & then later at Cowards Marsh, Christchurch
Razorbill - 15 Portland Harbour
Short Eared Owl - 1 Portland at the Bill
Water Pipit -1 Parky Meade Rail, Stanpit Marsh
Siberian Chiffchaff - 2 Kinson sewage works by perimeter fence-Stour Valley LNR
Firecrest - 1 Abbotsbury Gardens, 1 Cattistock Churchyard,
Great Grey Shrike - 1 (yesterday Friday 19/01/2018 Morden Bog)
Brambling - 1 Well Bottom, Ashmore

Redpoll 1 Well Bottom, Ashmore

Hawfinch - 26 New Road, Lower Bryanston, 15 Cattistock Churchyard, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Well Bottom, Ashmore, 1 Kinson sewage works by perimeter fence-Stour Valley LNR

Hawfinch, Lower Bryanston © Michael Coleman

Sightings - Friday 19th January 2018

Black Brant - (1 yesterday at Middlebere Channel with 200 Dark-bellied Brent Geese)
Egyptian Goose - 2 Frome Valley
Common Scoter - 3 Middle Beach, Studland
Goldeneye - 8 between Poole Harbour mouth & Goathorn
Great Northern Diver - 3 Middle Beach, Studland, 2 Portland Harbour, 1 Poole Park Lake

Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Cleavel Point 
Black Necked Grebe - 8 Portland Harbour, 6 Shipstal Point, Arne, 2 Middle Beach, Studland, 
Spoonbill - 20 Shipstal Point, Arne, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch
Hen Harrier - 2 male west Poole Harbour, 1 ringtail west Poole Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 1 North Haven
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch
Spotted Redshank - 3 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch
Sandwich Tern - 1 between Poole Harbour mouth & Goathorn
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Kinson Sewage Works by Perimeter fence-Stour Valley LNR
Firecrest - 1 Kinson Sewage Works by Perimeter fence-Stour Valley LNR
Hawfinch - 35 Lower Bryanston, 5 St Mary's Church, Lytchett Matravers, 3 Old Manor, Puddletown

Hawfinch, Lower Bryanston © Michael Coleman

Teal, Holes Bay © David Wareham

Sightings - Thursday 18th January 2018

Scaup - 2 Southdown Avenue, Lodmoor

Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Park, 3 Portland Harbour
Black Necked Grebe - 5 Portland Harbour
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Brands Bay
Merlin - 1 Morden Bog
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Middlebere, 1 Ringtail Hartland Moor, 1 Male Hartland Moor
Common Sandpiper - 1 Sandfoot Castle, Portland Harbour
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 North Marsh, Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch
(Also reported for Yesterday Wednesday 17/01/2018)
Greenshank - 1 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay
Woodlark - 1 Morden Bog NNR
Water Pipit - 2 Lytchett Bay, Poole Harbour
Blackcap - 1 Pennsylvania Castle Woods, Portland
Siberian Chiffchaff 1, Kinson sewage works-Stour Valley LNR,
Yellow Browed Warbler - 1 Pennsylvania Castle Woods, Portland
Firecrest - 5 Church Ope Cove, Portland
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog NNR
Brambling - 5 Badbury Rings, Beech Avenue between car parks,
Hawfinch - 1 Badbury Rings, Beech Avenue between car parks, 1 St.James, Shaftesbury, 2 Cattistock by churchyard, 1 Kinson Sewage works-Stour Valley LNR, 1 Lower Bryanston

Spotted Redshank, Holes Bay © David Wareham

Sightings - Wednesday 17th January 2018

Scaup - 4 Lodmoor, 3 Abbotsbury Swannery (view only from Road)
Velvet Scoter - 1 Poole Harbour off Brownsea Island
Black-throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Middle Beach
Ruff - 5 Lodmoor
Sanderling - 47 Knowledge Beach
Caspian Gull - 1 Mudeford Quay
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog
Water Pipit - 2 Lodmoor
Siberian Chiffchaff - 2 Kilson STW
Hooded Crow - 1 Manor Farm Studland
Hawfinch - 40 Bryanston Cliff woods

Sightings - Tuesday 16th January 2018

BLACK BRANT - 1 Middlebere
Velvet Scoter - 1 Poole Harbour off Brownsea Island
Spoonbill - 13 Arne Bay
Sanderling - 43 Shell Bay
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog
Siberian Chiffchaff - 2 Kinson STW

Sightings - Monday 15th January 2018

Bittern - 1 Radipole Lake
STILT SANDPIPER - 1 Coward’s Marsh
Hawfinch - 65 Bryanston Cliffs Wood

Sightings - Sunday 14th January 2018

Bewick’s Swan - 2 Warmwell GPs
Goosander - 1 Warmwell GPs, 1 Ferrybridge
Velvet Scoter - 1 Poole Harbour
Scaup - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Lodmoor
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Park, 2 Ferrybridge , 4 Poole Harbour, 2 Shell Bay
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Ferrybridge
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Red-necked Grebe - 1Weymouth Bay
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Studland, 1 Middlebere
Purple Sandpiper - 20 Highcliffe
STILT SANDPIPER - 1 Coward’s Marsh
Guillemot - 1 Middlebere Channel
Short-eared Owl - 6 Portland
Black Redstart - 1 Warren Edge Road Bournemouth
Water Pipit - 2 Overcombe
Hooded Crow - 1 Manor Farm Studland
Hawfinch - 1 Litton Cheney, 2 South Perrott, 4 Fernery Kingston Lacy, 12 Lower Bryanston, 10 Cattistick Church, 10 Gillingham

Sightings - Saturday 13th January 2018.

Eider - 1 drake Portland Harbour.
Velvet Scoter - 1 Poole Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 11w past Portland Bill.
Great Northern Diver - 7 Poole Harbour.
Black-necked Grebe - 11 Poole Harbour.
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes.
Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 2 both ringtails Middlebere.
Merlin - 2 Chesil Beach, 1 Middlebere.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Poole Harbour.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Coward's Marsh.
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Coward's Marsh.(Evidently disturbed by wildfowlers, not been seen since).
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Poole Harbour.
Sandwich Tern - 2 Poole Harbour.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Sherford Bridge.
Water Pipit - 2+ Christchurch Harbour.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog.
Hawfinch - 6 Lower Bryanston, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Norden.

Sightings - Friday 12th January 2018.

Black Brant - 1 Middlebere Channel.
Scaup - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Eider - 1 drake off Ferrybridge.
Velvet Scoter - 1 Poole Harbour.
Great Northern Diver - 2 Poole Harbour, 2 Portland Harbour, 1 over Ferrybridge,1 Poole Park.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour.
Black-necked Grebe - 15 Portland Harbour, 4 off Ferrybridge.
Golden Plover - 1000 Rainbow Farm, Dorchester.
Ruff - 2 Lodmoor RSPB.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour.
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Coward's Marsh.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Sika Copse, Middlebere.
Dipper - 2 Lyme Regis.
Black Redstart - 1 Chesil Cove.
Hawfinch - 6 Lower Bryanston, 1 Blandford.

Hawfinch – Lower Bryanston © Michael Coleman.

Spotted Redshank – Holes Bay ©Clive & Rosemary Hargrave.

Sightings - Thursday 11th January 2018.

Egyptian Goose - 9 east of Holmbridge.
Tufted Duck - 1 past Ferrybridge.
Eider - 1 off Hengistbury Head.
Common Scoter - 16 off Hengistbury Head, 15 past Portland Bill.
Velvet Scoter - 1 imm. female Poole Harbour.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill.
Great Northern Diver - 5 Poole Harbour, 1 Poole Park.
Bittern - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Swineham.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB.
Spoonbill - 9 Middlebere.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Middlebere.
Great Bustard - 3 circled Ferrybridge.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 87 Sandbanks.
Spotted Redshank -  1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Bay.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 reported at Lodmoor RSPB.
Black Redstart - 2 Durlston CP.
Great Grey Shrike -1 Morden Bog.

Sightings - Wednesday 10th January 2018.

Common Scoter - 5 Poole Harbour.
Velvet Scoter - 1 Poole Harbour.
Great Northern Diver - 5 Poole Harbour, 3 Portland Harbour.
Black-necked Grebe - 15 Poole Harbour, 12 Portland Harbour.
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes.
Bar-tailed Godwit - 49 Sandbanks.
Little Gull - 1 off Portland Bill.
Iceland Gull - 1 possible off Portland Bill.
Short-eared Owl - 4 Portland Bill, 1 Tout Quarry, Portland.
Black Redstart - 1 Chesil Cove.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Pennsylvania Castle.
Firecrest - 4 Pennsylvania Castle Woods/Church Ope Cove, 2 Greenhill, Weymouth.
Hawfinch - 25 Bryanston, 15+ Cattistock Churchyard, 2 Blandford Stout Park, 2 Lytchett Matravers Church.
Snow Bunting - 1s over Ferrybridge.

Great Northern Diver – Poole Park © R.A.Howes.

Goldeneye – Poole Park © R.A.Howes.

Hawfinch – Lytchett Matravers Church © Phyl England.

Pintail – Lodmoor RSPB © Derek Fowler. 

Ruff – Lodmoor RSPB © Derek Fowler.

Turnstones – Lodmoor RSPB © Derek Fowler. 

Sightings - Tuesday 9th January 2018

Black-throated Diver - 3 reported past Hengistbury Head
Great Northern Diver - 3 off Portland Castle, 1 off Poole Quay, 1 Poole Park
Black-necked Grebe - 5 off Portland Castle
Great White Egret - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Avon Causeway, 2 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 1 Lewell Barn
Hen Harrier - male Hartland Moor
Spotted Redshank - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Green Sandpiper - 1 Holton Lee
Water Pipit - 2 Coward's Marsh
Hawfinch - 21+ Leigh churchyard, 20 Lower Bryanston, 1 Longham Lakes

Greenshank - Holton Lee © Clive Hargrave

Spoonbill - Holton Lee © Clive Hargrave

Sightings - Monday 8th January 2018

Scaup - 1 Lodmoor
Cattle Egret - 1 Lewell Barn
Spoonbill - c15 Patchins Point, 3 Lytchett Bay
Great Northern Diver - 8 Poole Harbour, 3 Portland Harbour, 1 Poole Park
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Preston Beach
Black-necked Grebe - 7 Poole Harbour, 3 Portland Harbour
Hen Harrier - ringtail Lytchett Bay, 1+ ringtail Tarrant Rushton Airfield
Short-eared Owl - 1 Eggardon Hill Fort
Jack Snipe - 2 Bere Regis CBs
Green Sandpiper - 1 Muckleford, 1 Waddock Farm CBs, 2 Bere Regis CBs
Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Norden Sewage Works
Hawfinch - 45+ New Road, Lower Bryanston, 20 Cattistock Churchyard, several Blandford Stour Park, 1 Thorncombe Woods, 2 Sturminster GPs

Sanderling - Bramble Bush Bay © Brad Mear

Sightings - Sunday 7th January 2018

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Cutcleaves Cove
Scaup - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Ferrybridge
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Park, 1 Portland Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 4 Cutcleaves Cove
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 still Lewell Barn SY743898
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Bay
Golden Plover - 1,000 Maiden Castle
Purple Sandpiper - 1 North Haven
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay
Iceland Gull - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Ferrybridge
Hen Harrier - ringtail Lytchett Bay, male Arne RSPB
Black Guillemot - 1 yesterday off Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Chesil Cove, 1 Tilly Whim (Durlston)
Hooded Crow - 1 Studland village above Manor Farm
Hawfinch - 1 Blandford Stour Park, 2 Stour Valley LNR (Kinson), 3 Cattistock churchyard, 35 still New Road, Lower Bryanston

Hen Harrier - Arne © Tony Minvalla

Hawfinch - Lower Bryanston © Mike Coleman

Great Northern Diver - Poole Park © Ian Ballam

Great Northern Diver - Poole Park © Martin Wood

Snipe - Lodmoor © Andrew Maynard

Ruff - Lodmoor © Andrew Maynard

Grey Plover and Dunlin - The Fleet © Jayson Grove

Sightings - Saturday 6th January 2018

Scaup - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 4 Poole Harbour
Velvet Scoter -  1 female still in Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 Poole Park, 1 Weymouth Bay, 4 Poole Harbour, 2 Studland Bay, 7 Portland Harbour
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 9 Portland Harbour
Cattle Egret - 1 Lewell Barn
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Middlebere Channel
Ruff - 5 Lodmoor
Spotted Redshank - 4 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Holes Bay
Black Redstart - 1 west end of Charles St, Weymouth, 1 Chesil Cove
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Church Ope Cove, Portland
Hooded Crow - 1 Studland
Hawfinch - 30+ New Road, Lower Bryanston, 12 Cattistock Churchyard, 8 Lytchett Matravers St Mary's Church, 1 Milton Abbas, several Leigh Churchyard

Firecrest - Sherborne © Paul Dibben

Firecrest - Sherborne © Paul Dibben

Spotted Redshank - Holes Bay © David Wareham

Blackcap - Portesham © Sue Wingett

Reports of interest, Friday 5th January 2018.

Egyptian Goose - 6 East Stoke, 2 nr Knighton Heath.
Great Northern Diver - 5 Portland Harbour.
Black-Throated Diver - 1 past Mudeford Quay.
Black-Necked Grebe - 6 Portland Harbour.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour.
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes.
Cattle Egret - 1 Lewell Barn, West Knighton.
Spoonbill - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Harrier sp. - 1 passed through Christchurch Harbour but could not be identified to species.
Red Kite - 2 Iwerne Minster.
Ruff - 2 Lodmoor.
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 Church Ope.
Firecrest - 2 Church Ope.
Hawfinch - 1 East Stoke, 6-7 Kingston Lacey NT, 6 Lower Bryanston, 2 Lytchett Matravers.

Dunlin, Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Shoveler, Radipole © David Wareham

 

Reports of interest, Thursday 4th January 2018.

Pale-Bellied Brent Goose - 3 Ferrybridge.
Goosander - 1 Sturminster Marshall GPs.
Great Northern Diver - 5 Portland Harbour.
Great White Egret - 1 reported Sturminster Marshall GPs, 1 Longham Lakes.
Spoonbill - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 2 Lodmoor.
Hen Harrier - 1-2 Middlebere, 3-4 west Poole Harbour.
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor.
Iceland Gull - 1 Chesil Cove.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere.
Black Redstart - 1 Tilly Whim, 1 Newton's Cove.
Yellow-Browed Warbler - 1 Pennsylvania Castle.
Firecrest - 2 Pennsylvania Castle.
Hawfinch - 19 Lower Bryanston.

Wigeon from Hengistbury Head © Joe Murphy

Red-Breasted Merganser in Holes Bay © David Wareham