Monday 18th March 2024

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 8 Bridging Camp, The Fleet
Barnacle Goose - 1 still Holme Lane Gravel Pit
Mandarin - 2 again Holmebridge, 2 Carey's Secret Garden
Scaup - 1 still Abbotsbury Swannery, view from New Barn Road
Long-tailed Duck - 3 still East Fleet, 1 off Jerry's Point
Goosander - 10 female at Silverlake roost
Red-breasted Merganser - 16 off Jerry's Point
Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Jerry's Point
Grey Plover - 24 Brands Bay
Knot - 4 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 still Lytchett Fields
Sandwich Tern - 7 on Brownsea Lagoon
Great  Northern Diver - 1 still East Fleet, 1 off Jerry's Point
Spoonbill - 1 Brands Bay
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Wareham Forest
Red Kite - 1 over Upton
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still Wareham Forest between Woolsbarrow Fort and Sugar Hill
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still Louds Mill SW, nr. Dorchester
Firecrest - 2 Thorncombe Wood, 1 Lanehouse
Black Redstart - 1 Greenlands Farm, 1 on rocks below Nothe Fort
Wheatear - 1 Greenlands Farm
Water Pipit - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Brambling - 1 near Hardy's Cottage, Thorncombe Wood

Meditteranean Gulls, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman


Cattle Egret, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman