Tuesday 26th March 2024

Barnacle Goose - 1 East Holme GP
Long-tailed Duck - 3 East Fleet
Eider - 1 off Greenhill in Weymouth Bay
Sanderling - c30 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Knot - 20 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Ruff - 2 past Hengistbury Head in large Black-tailed Godwit flock
Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham
Purple Sandpiper - 29 Hengistbury Head
FORSTER'S TERN - a possible 2nd winter past Shipstal Point heading towards Middlebere this morning
Great Northern Diver - 4 Poole Harbour
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Head
Spoonbill - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great White Egret - 2 over Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - Female '017' joined  male '022' today in Poole Harbour, earliest return date
Red Kite -  1 Longham Lakes
White-tailed Eagle - a pair in Wareham Channel
Short-eared Owl - 1 east of Abbotsbury this afternoon
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still in Wareham Forest near Sugar Hill
Ring Ouzel - 1 female Hengistbury (Barn Fields)
Black Redstart - 1 Portland (East Cliffs), 1 St Aldhelm's Head (coastguard cottages)

Yesterday : A Cuckoo heard near Wild Woodbury in the morning.

Greenfinch, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Eider, Weymouth Bay © Daragh Croxon

Dartford Warbler © Nigel Tooth