Wednesday 5th January 2022

White-fronted Goose - 11 Silverlake, 1 Charminster Water Meadows
Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 4 Rodden Hive, 4 Tidmoor Pt.
Black Brant - 1 Rodden Hive
Scaup - 1 fem Rodden Hive
Goosander - 3 Silverlake, 1 Swineham Pt.
Red-throated Diver - 7 past Durlston CP. 2 Portland Bill
Black-throated Diver - 2 Portland Hbr. (off sailing club)
Great Northern Diver - 4 Shell Bay
Cattle Egret - 31 Portesham, 9 Winkton (in field off Burley Rd)
Great White Egret - 2 Swineham Pt.
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Brand's Bay, 2 Tidmoor Pt, 1 Portland Hbr, 1 Shell Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 4 Portland Hbr.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Middlebere a.m. & 1 pos same Holton Heath p.m, 1 Wyke Down North.
Hen Harrier - 2 ringtail Middlebere, 1 Swineham Pt, 1 Wyke Down
Purple Sandpiper - 8 Lyme Regis, 1 Sandbanks
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere
Woodcock - 2 near Beaminster
Sandwich Tern - 1 Sandbanks
Little Gull - 2 again Maiden Castle (in field NE of car park
Iceland Gull - 1 2nd/winter Weymouth Bay
Short-eared Owl - 2 Portland Bill, 2 Wyke Down
Merlin - 1 Middlebere, 1 Portland Bill
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Shell Bay boardwalk, 2 Rodden Hive
Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Newton's Cove, 2 Portesham
Cirl Bunting - 1 male West Bexington

Black Redstart - Chesil Cove - ©Alick Simmons

Cattle Egret - Portesham © Janice Grove