Tuesday 17th February 2026

Goldeneye - 1 Wareham Channel.
Goosander - 3 Holmebridge.
Black-necked Grebe - 8 Brands Bay.
Slavonian Grebe - 3 Brands Bay.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Sanderling - 38 Brands Bay.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Purple Sandpiper - 10 Hengistbury sandspit, 4 Lyme Regis (The Cobb).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Greenshank - 6 Lytchett Fields.
Great Northern Diver - 3 Brands Bay.
Cattle Egret - 65 west of Abbotsbury behind the beach.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Brands Bay, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Arne, 1 Christchurch Hbr.
Red Kite - 1 Arne, 1 St Aldhelm's Head.
Goshawk - 1 Poole Harbour.
Merlin - 1 Arne.
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Abbotsbury.
Hawfinch - 2 Sixpenny Handley (Chase Woods).
Redpoll - 35 Sixpenny Handley (Chase Woods), 1 Stanpit.

Late news:  
Black Redstart, The Nothe, yesterday 16th Feb.

Treecreeper, Thorncombe Wood © Alan Membury

Nuthatch, Thorncombe Wood © Alan Membury