Sightings - Tuesday 1st January 2019

Dorset Bird Club would like to wish all our blog visitors a 

Happy and Bird Filled 2019.


White-fronted Goose - 1 imm. Bestwall Meadows
Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 4 East Fleet
Black Brant - 1 East Fleet
Mandarin - 1 Poole Park
Ring-necked Duck - 1 1st/w drake Radipole Lake RSPB
Long-tailed Duck - 1 East Fleet
Black-throated Diver - 1 Sandsfoot Castle
Great Northern Diver - 3 Bowleaze Cove, 2 Brands Bay, 1 Baiter, 1 East Fleet
Cattle Egret - 35+ Portesham, 6 Worgret Meadows (viewed from Holme Lane)
Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 Little Sea.
Spoonbill - 21 Arne RSPB
Red-necked Grebe - 2 Bowleaze Cove
Slavonian Grebe - 4 East Fleet, 1 Middle Beach Studland.
Black-necked Grebe - 17 Sandsfoot Castle, 12 Middle Beach, 6 Bramble Bush Bay.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail West Poole Hbr, 1 Manswood
Goshawk - 1 Manswood
Golden Plover - 6 Swineham Pt.
Ruff - 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Sanderling - 31 Bramble Bush Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Lyme Regis on The Cobb.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 1st/w Lodmoor RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 1 Baiter Park
Short-eared Owl - 1 Bowleaze Cove
Firecrest - 2 Arne RSPB
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1+ Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Radipole Lake RSPB
Dusky Warbler - 1 East Fleet
Black Redstart - 1 East Fleet
Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red-breasted Merganser - Poole Park © David Wareham