Thursday 24th December 2020

The Dorset Bird Club would like to wish all members and visitors to our daily blog, a safe and enjoyable Christmas

Whooper Swan - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Russian White-fronted Goose - 7 Silverlake at midday then flew north
Long-tailed Duck - 1 Silverlake
Scaup - 4 Jerry's Point
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Jerry's Point, 2 Portland Harbour, 1 Studland Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle
Sanderling - 30 Bramble Bush Bay
Purple Sandpiper -10 on the Cobb at Lyme Regis
Iceland Gull - 1 juvenile Portland Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 5 Jerry's Point
Glossy Ibis - 1 still at Christchurch Harbour
Spoonbill - 6+ Holes Bay
Great White Egret - 7 Longham Lakes
Cattle Egret - 7 NW of Winkton, 6+ at Holwell Farm near Buckland Ripers (later 5 in Nottington),         1 left roost in Lytchett Bay
Hen Harrier - 2 over Trigon Heath (Wareham Forset)

Purple Sandpiper, Lyme Regis © Paul Harris

Treecreeper, Woodville © John Bishop