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