Thursday 9th December 2021

Scaup - 6 Brand's Bay
Velvet Scoter - 1 past Hengistbury
Goosander - 1 past Hengistbury
Red-necked Grebe -  2 Weymouth Bay, 1 from North Haven
Black-necked Grebe - 10 Portland Harbour, 4 Studland Bay, 2 Brand's Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 4 Portland Harbour
Golden Plover - c600 around Maiden Castle
Purple Sandpier -19 Lyme Regis,  2 North Haven, 2 Hengistbury Sandspit
Great Northern Diver - 3 from North Haven, 2 Weymouth Bay, 1 Portland Harbour, 1 Studland Bay, 1 Baiter, 1 Hengistbury
Red-throated Diver - 2 Hengistbury
Black-throated Diver - 1
Hengistbury
Cattle Egret - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Swineham

Hen Harrier - 2 from Swineham Point
Short-eared Owl - 1 Ferrybridge
Merlin - 1 Child Okeford
Pallas's Warbler - 1 again in Two Mile Coppice, Weymouth
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Wood
Black Redstart - 1 Blacknor (Portland)
Water Pipit - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Purple Sandpiper, Hengistbury Sandspit © Mike Kirby