Sightings - Friday 6th March 2020.


Long-tailed Duck - 2 Poole Harbour.
Golden Pheasant - 1 Furzey Island.
Great Northern Diver - 6 Poole Harbour.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Poole Harbour.
Black-necked Grebe - 7 Poole Harbour.
Hen Harrier - 1 Arne Moors, 1 Wareham Channel.
Golden Plover -22 over Maiden Castle.
Bar-tailed Godwit - c40 Brownsea Island.
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Highcliffe.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Brownsea Island.
Greenshank - 2 Brownsea Island.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Wareham Channel.
Merlin - 2 Arne Moors, 1 Blandford.
Woodlark - 2 Turnerspuddle Heath.
"Siberian" Chiffchaff - 1 PC World drain.
Firecrest - 3 Church Ope Cove, 1 PC World drain.

Greylag Goose – flooded fields west of Canford Bridge © Roger Peart. 

Mediterranean Gull with Black-headed Gulls – flooded fields west of Canford Bridge © Roger Peart. 


Purple Sandpiper – Highcliffe © Clinton Whale.  

Water Rail – Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale.


Brent Geese – Ferrybridge © Peter Clinch.