Sunday 22nd December 2024

Eider - 1 imm.male off Redhorn Point
Common Scoter - 10 off Middle Beach
Long-tailed Duck - 1f west of Goathorn Point
Goldeneye - 5 Brands Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 5 off Fitzworth Point, Ower Bay, 5 again off Middle Beach
Avocet - 287 Holes Bay
Black-tailed Godwit - c3000 Stanpit Marsh, c900 Holes Bay
Knot - 10 Holes Bay
Ruff - 2 Lower Piddle Valley
Dunlin - 990 Brands Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 still from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Red-throated Diver - 2 off Jerry's Point
Black-throated Diver - 2 again off Baiter Park, Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 3 off Middle Beach, 2 Osprey Quay, Portland Harbour, 2 into Poole Harbour
Shag - 64 off North Haven into Poole Harbour
Spoonbill - 16 Arne RSPB, 10 off Fitzworth Point, Ower Bay
Cattle Egrets - several in the paddocks, Swineham
Kingfisher - 1 NE Holes Bay
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Lower Piddle Valley, Swineham
Black Redstart - 2 Lyme Regis Cemetery, 1 Lyme Regis Seafront, 1  Newton's Cove

Shoveler, Lodmoor RSPB © Mick Church


Black Redstart, Newton's Cove © Phil Cheeseman


Black-tailed Godwits, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale