Tuesday 16th March 2021

Long-tailed Duck - 2 Poole Harbour, 1 Silverlake
Ring-necked Duck - female still at Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 25 Hengistbury sandspit
LAUGHING GULL - 2nd winter again on West Scrape at Lodmoor RSPB, later in Weymouth Bay
Puffin - 7 Dancing Ledge
Great Northern Diver - 1 Arne RSPB (Shipstal Point)
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 4 Arne RSPB (Shipstal Point)
Cattle Egret - 6 Buckland Ripers, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
White-tailed Eagle - 1 presumed from IOW project, circled over Dorchester this morning, later one over Lytchett Bay
Hen Harrier - 1 Hartland Moor
Merlin - 1 Hengistbury
Sand Martin - 2 Swineham GPs, 2 Hengistbury Head
Ring Ouzel - 1 Hengistbury Head
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury
Wheatear - 2 West Bexington, 1 Hartland Moor,1 Cogden Beach, 1 Charmouth
Brambling - 1 over Hengistbury

Puffin, Dancing Ledge © Chris Roughley

Wheatear, Charmouth © Roger Boswell

Yellowhammer between Dorchester & Puddletown © Alan Membury