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!