Garganey - 1 female Lodmoor RSPB
Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes, 3 Lodmoor RSPB
Long-tailed Duck - 4 The Fleet off Tidmoor Point, 1 Christchurch Harbour from Fisherman's Bank
Velvet Scoter - 1 East Fleet
Goosander - 2 Silverlake
Grey Partridge - 16 in 2 coveys at Milborne St Andrew, also heard calling at Wyke Down
Black-throated Diver - 2 Portland Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Harbour
Slavonian Grebe - 2 East Fleet
Cattle Egret - 20 Abbotsbury
Great White Egret - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Hampreston Meadows
Red-necked Grebe - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Red Kite - 1 Wyke Down, 1 Sopley Common
Hen Harrier - 2 Swineham/Arne Moors, 1 male Wyke Down, 2 male and ringtail at Milborne St Andrew
Merlin - 1 Milborne St Andrew
Great Bustard - 1 released bird near Butterstreet Cove
Golden Plover - 16 over Abbotsbury Swannery
Purple Sandpiper - 11 Lyme Regis, 10+ Highcliffe (on groyne 10)
Spotted Redshank - 4 Middlebere, 1 Swineham Point
Short-eared Owl - 2 Milborne St Andrew
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog
Firecrest - 1 Middlebere (near hide)
Woodlark - 2 Silverlake
Dipper - 2 Lyme Regis
Black Redstart - 1 Lyme Regis (Monmouth Beach CP), 1 Chesil Cove
Bullfinch - 7 Wyke Down
Hawfinch - 3 BonsleyCommon (on path to Okeford Hill)
Corn Bunting - 6+ Maiden Castle
Grey Partridge at Milborne St Andrew © Mike Coleman |
Marsh Harrier at Lodmoor RSPB © Edmund Mackrill |
Bearded Tit at Radipole Lake RSPB © Janice Beck |