Sightings - Monday 2nd December 2019

Eider - 3 Portland Harbour, 1 Lyme Regis
Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes
Long-tailed Duck -2 East Fleet, 1 off Jerry's Point (Poole Harbour)
Velvet Scoter - 2 Poole Harbour
Goosander - 1 Portland Harbour
Black-throated Diver - 2 Portland Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 3 Portland Harbour, 1 Poole Harbour, 1 Ferrybridge
Cattle Egret - 1 flew up river at Holmebridge
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 21 Shipstal Point (Arne RSPB)
Slavonian Grebe - 2 East Fleet, 2 Portland Harbour
Black-necked Grebe - 7 Portland Harbour, 2 Shell Bay, 5 Jerry's Point
Hen Harrier - 1 female Arne Moors
Merlin - 2 Hartland Moor
Red Kite - 1 or 2 Chaldon Down
Purple Sandpiper - 9 on the Cobb, Lyme Regis, 1 Osprey Quay (Portland Harbour)
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog (SW of Decoy Pond), 1 Sugar Hill
Firecrest - 1 Upton Park
Corn Bunting - 48 Winterborne Whitechurch

Slavonian Grebes at Portland Harbour © Edmund Mackrill