Monday 2nd February 2026

Garganey - female Abbotsbury Swannery
Scaup - 1st winter drake Abbotsbury Swannery
Red-necked Grebe - 1 still Abbotsbury Swannery (closed for winter)
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Shell Bay
Golden Plover - c.600 Maiden Castle, 35 circling above Higher Burnbake
Black-tailed Godwit - 4600+ Holes Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Little Gull - 2 off Avon Beach Mudeford, 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 sub adult Lodmoor
Red-throated Diver - 43 from sea at Christchurch
Black-throated Diver - 1 past Kimmeridge
Great Northern Diver - 1 from sea at Christchurch, 4 off Jerry's Point
Glossy Ibis - 10 again on River Piddle floods towards Ferncroft Farm Wareham
Great White Egret - 1 Woodsford
Cattle Egret - 8 Bardolf Farm Athelhampton , 4 Kingston Maurward
Red Kite - 2 over Lytchett Matravers, 2 Red Kite, 1 Wick
Short-eared Owl - up to 4 Arne
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 still at PC World drain Poole
Firecrest - 2 Thorncombe Wood
Cirl Bunting - at least 9 in cover crop at Old Harry

Sub adult Little Gull, Lodmoor  © John Pritchard



Dartford Warbler, Silverlake   ©  Alan Membury



Common Sandpiper, Silverlake ©   Alan Membury

















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