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, near Fort/Castle, nr. Christchurch
Red Kite - 1 over Upton
Great Grey Shrike - 1 near Fort/Castle, nr. Christchurch
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

Sunday 17th March 2024

Barnacle Goose - 1 East Holme Gravel Pit
Garganey - 1 Lytchett Pools Field
Common Scoter - 20 on sea off Hengistbury
Long-tailed Duck - 3 East Fleet, 1 off Redhorn Quay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Smallmouth Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields
Great Northern Diver - 2 off Portland Castle
Cattle Egret - 20+ Wareham Common, 1 Swineham
Hen Harrier - 1 male Lytchett Fields
Red Kite - 1 over Charlton Down
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over house in Child Okeford
Sand Martin - 10 Swineham, 1 from Rock Lea Viewpoint
Chiffchaff - 50 over Hengistbury & Wick
Ring Ouzel - 1 Trev's Quarry, St. Aldhem's Head
Fieldfare - 9 over Hengistbury
Black Redstart - 1 female-type Portland Castle
Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Greenhill Beach, Weymouth, 1 Tidmoor Point, 1 Hengistbury, 1 Little Bredy
Meadow Pipit - 235 over Hengistbury
Brambling - 1 over Hengistbury
Corn Bunting - 1 singing St. Aldhem's Head

Great Tit, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins


Goosander, female, Holes Bay © Ian Ballam

Saturday 16th March 2024

Grey Partridge - 1 Southover nr Tolpuddle
Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane GP
Mandarin Duck - 1 Holmebridge
Long tailed Duck - 1 off Jerry's Point
Goosander - 1 Holes Bay PCW drain
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay
Black necked Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Point
Mediterranean Gull - 120 Longham Lakes
Great Northern diver - 3 off Jerry's Point 
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Cattle Egret - 12 Christchurch Harbour
Red Kite - 1 St Aldhelms Head, 1 Longham Lakes
White tailed Eagle - 1 Hydes Heath Arne RSPB
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Black redstart - 1 Portland Castle
Wheatear - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Greenlands Studland Heath
Corn Bunting 1 Ballard Down


Woodlark - Wareham Forest ©  Alan Membury




Reed Bunting - Wareham Forest ©  Alan Membury




Stonechat - Wareham Forest ©  Alan Membury


Friday 15th March 2024

Mandarin Duck - 4 Lower Piddle Valley, 2 Holmebridge
Goosander - 1 Devil's Brook Athelhampton
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay
Black necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay
Golden Plover - 1 Middlebere Farm
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere Channel
Sandwich Tern - 1 Brands Bay
Red Throated Diver - 1 off Peveril Point flew west
Black throated Diver - 1 on the sea off Peveril Point
Great Northern Diver - 2 Brands Bay
Spoonbill - 10 Wareham Channel, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 23 Wareham Common, 4 Athelhampton
White tailed Eagle - 2 Durweston, 1 Male G812 Child Okeford, 1 female G466 flew west over Swanage Bay
Sand Martin - 5 Swineham GP
Yellow browed Warbler - 1 Dorchester Louds Mill Sewage works
Wheatear - 2 Green Hill Beach Weymouth, 1 Stanpit Marsh

White tailed Eagle G812 - Childe Okeford © Marilyn Peddle



Thursday 14th March 2024

Surf Scoter - 1 female/imm Flew past Portland Bill with Common Scoter flock  in the morning
Velvet Scoter - 1 Flew past Hegisbury Head
Long tailed Duck - 1 on the sea off Hengisbury Head
Goosander - 1 Holes Bay
Grey Partridge - 2 St Aldhelms Head
Little Gull - 1 Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Wareham Common
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Cattle Egret - 32 Wareham Common
Great White Egret - 1 Sturminster Marshall GP
Red Kite - 1 over Sturmister Marshall GP
Hoopoe - 1 Durlston CP car park
Sand Martin - 2 Radipole RSPB
Whitethroat - 2 Winspit Valley
Wheatear - 2 Winspit Valley, 1 Norden Sewage Works

Reed Bunting - Longham Lake © Robert Fielding




Pintail - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale




Great Crested Grebe - Longham Lakes © Robert Fielding


Wednesday 13th March 2024

Goosander - 1 River Avon Christchurch
Black tailed Godwit  - 2500 - 3000 Avon Causeway
Sandwich Tern - 1 Brands Bay
Spoonbill - 3 Wareham Channel
Marsh Harrier - 4 Wareham Channel, 1 Middlebere, 1 Avon Causeway
Hen Harrier - 1 Wareham Channel
Red Kite - 1 Avon Causeway, 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Winterborne Whitchurch
Merlin - 1 Wareham Channel
Marsh Tit - 1 Thornecombe Wood
Black Redstart - 1 Newton's Cove Weymouth
Brambling - 2 Thornecombe Wood
Lesser Redpoll - 4 Thornecombe Wood

Black tailed Godwit - Avon Causeway © Kevin Sayer




Shoveler - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale


Tuesday 12th March 2024

Golden Pheasant - 1 Cheselbourne.
Grey Plover - 15 Brands Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Holes Bay.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Great Northern Diver - 1 Portland Harbour, 3 Studland Bay (Middle Beach).
Cattle Egret - 28 Wareham Common.
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Kimmeridge Bay.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Christchurch Harbour.
Red Kite - 3 Organford.
Merlin - 1 Studland (Greenlands Farm).
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wareham Forest (Trigon Heath).
Sand Martin - 3 Lodmoor.
Black Redstart - 1 Weymouth (Newton's Cove).
Wheatear - 1+ Portland Bill.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head.

Greenfinch, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.




















White-tailed Eagle, Kimmeridge Bay © Dan Bartlett.


Monday 11th March 2024

Grey Partridge - 2 St Aldhelm's Head.
Goldeneye - 2 Longham Lakes.
Long-tailed Duck - 3 The Fleet (Chickerell).
Slavonian Grebe - 2 Portland Harbour, 6 The Fleet (Chickerell).
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Silverlake.
Great Northern Diver - 4 Portland Harbour, 3 Studland (Shell Bay), 2 The Fleet (Chickerell).
Cattle Egret - 2 Hampreston meadows, 62+ Abbotsbury roost, 12 Wareham Common.
Red Kite - 1 Bridport, 1 Holton Lee.
Merlin - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Meadow Pipit - 143 Hengistbury Head from the sea, 16 NE over St Aldhelm's Head.
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill.
Chiffchaff - c.50 Hengistbury Head.
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still at Louds Mill STW (Dorchester).
Wheatear - 1+ Portland Bill.
Firecrest - 1 Hengistbury Head.

News from yesterday: at least 17 Great Northern Diver in Portland Harbour; 2 Mandarin Duck briefly at Corfe Mullen.

Rock Pipit, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.

Sunday 10th March 2024

Grey Partridge - 2 Allen valley, 4 nr Blandford.
Long-tailed Duck - 3 The Fleet (Tidmoor).
Mandarin - 1 lower Frome valley, 1 Hinton Parva.
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Portland Harbour, 4 Tidmoor.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brands Bay, 3 Portland Harbour.
Grey Plover - 5 Stanpit.
Knot - 27 Holes Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields.
Great Northern Diver - 7 Brands Bay, 2-3 Tidmoor.
Cattle Egret - 19 Wareham Common.
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over A350 SE of Blandford.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Avon Causeway, 1 Radipole Lake.
Red Kite - 7 Allen valley, 1 nr Blandford, 2 Broadwey, 6 Corfe Castle, 2 Studland, 7 Worth Matravers.
Merlin - 1 Allen valley.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Lower Hyde bog.
Whitethroat - 2 reported Durlston CP.
Firecrest - 1 nr Blandford, 1 Gussage valley.

Woodlark, Wareham Forest © Garry Hayman.

Saturday 9th March 2024

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Tidmoor.
Black-necked Grebe - 4 Brands Bay, 1 Tidmoor.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Tidmoor.
Avocet - 4 Silverlake.
Grey Plover - 19 Brands Bay.
Knot - 25 Brands Bay.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Wareham Common.
Great Northern Diver - 6 Hamworthy Beach, 1 Tidmoor.
Spoonbill - 5 Brownsea Island.
Marsh Harrier - 1 Langton Herring.
Red Kite - 1 Hardy's monument, 1 Martinstown, 1 Sturminster Marshall GP.
Short-eared Owl - 1 Tidmoor.
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wareham Forest (near Sugar Hill).
Wheatear - 1 Poole Harbour, 1 Wareham Common.
Firecrest - 2 Kilwood NR, 1 Wareham Common.
Cirl Bunting - 1 Chickerell Army Camp.

Great Grey Shrike, Wareham Forest © Steve Carey.
















Great Grey Shrike, Wareham Forest © Steve Carey.
















Teal, Stanpit © Clinton Whale.


Friday 8th March 2024

 Long-tailed Duck - 1 close in Chesil beach/Cove
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Poole Harbour
Avocet - 1 Lodmoor
Ruff - 1 Swineham Point
Green Sandpiper - 1 Upton Country Park
Black-throated Diver - 1 Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 8 Poole Harbour
Spoonbill - 6 Poole Harbour
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Red Kite - 1 Winterbourne Zelston
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour
Short-eared Owl - 1 again at Wyke Down
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still showing well near Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest
Sand Martin - 2 Wareham Common
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 remains at Louds Mill Sewage Works
Firecrest - 1 The Grove, Upton Country Park
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Northern Wheatear - 1 Holes Bay

Common Scoter - West Bexington  © John Pritchard


Thursday 7th March 2024

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 8 Pirate's Cove Wyke Regis
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Jerry's Point
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Jerry's Point
Black-tailed Godwit - 2061 Holes Bay
Dunlin - 381 Holes Bay
Spotted Redshank - 1 Holes Bay, 2 Swineham Point
Great Northern Diver - 2 Pirate's Cove Wyke Regis, 2 Jerry's Point
 Spoonbill - 1 north over Portland Bill
Red Kite - 2 over Lytchett Matravers  
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Brands Bay 
Short-eared Owl - 1 Pirate's Cove Wyke Regis
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 remains at Louds Mill sewage works, St George's Road Dorchester
Black Redstart - 1 West Bay

 Common Pochard, Radipole Lake  ©  Clinton Whale


Wednesday 6th March 2024

Garganey - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
 Long-tailed Duck - 3 Littlesea
Black-necked Grebe - 1 Portland Harbour, 2 Jerry's Point
Knot - 1 Littlesea
Dunlin - 50 Stanpit Marsh
Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill
Great Northern Diver - 1 Littlesea, 3 Portland Harbour
Red Kite - 1 over Lanehouse, Weymouth, 1 Marnhull, 1 Christchurch, 2 Badbury Rings
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 remains at Louds Mill Sewage Works
Firecrest - 1 West Christchurch garden, 1 Badbury Rings
Redwing - 30+ Badbury Rings, 6 Wick

Dunlin, Stanpit Marsh  © Clinton Whale


Starling, Hengistbury Head © John Bishop


Dartford Warbler, Hengistbury Head © John Bishop


House Sparrow, Hengistbury Head © John Bishop


Tuesday 5th March 2024

Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Point, Poole Harbour
 Black-necked Grebe - 3 Poole Harbour
Avocet - 100 Brownsea Lagoon
Golden Plover - 310 Maiden Castle
Purple Sandpiper - 18 Hengistbury Head
Black-throated Diver - 1 Poole Harbour
Great Northern Diver - 1 Weymouth Harbour
Spoonbill -  2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great White Egret - 1 east of Lower Bockhampton
Red Kite - 5 over Hambledon Hill
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Hambledon Hill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still near Sugar Hill, Wareham Forest
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still St Georges Road, Louds Mill sewage works, Dorchester (SY709902)



Purple Sandpiper, Hengistbury Head  © Clinton Whale


Monday 4th March 2024

Goldeneye - 2 Longham Lakes
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Redhorn Quay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Upton CP by the farm buildings
Purple Sandpiper - 21 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Middlebere
White-tailed Eagle - 1 Wareham Channel
Merlin - 1 past Hengistbury
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still in Wareham Forest near Sugar Hill
Crossbill - 9 Arne RSPB

Great Grey Shrike, Wareham Forest © Aidan Brown

Goldeneye, Longham Lakes © Ron Poulter

 

Sunday 3rd March 2024

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Tidmoor Point
Goldeneye - 1 male on South Lake at Longham Lakes
Long-tailed Duck - 3 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Slavonian Grebe - 5 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point, 2 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle, 1 Poole Harbour (South Deep)
Black-necked Grebe - 5 Poole Harbour, 3 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle, 1 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Purple Sandpiper - 12 Lyme Bay Cobb, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Little Gull - 1st-winter Lytchett Bay this morning
Sandwich Tern - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great Northern Diver - 12 Poole Harbour, 2 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point, 2 Portland Harbour from Sandsfoot Castle
Black-throated Diver - Portland Harbour: 5 from Sandsfoot Castle and 2 from Portland Castle
Cattle Egret - 12 Stanpit arly morning, 2 Hampreston Fields
Great White Egret - 1 Child Okeford on R Stour
White-tailed Eagle - 2 over Winterborne Stickland
Hen Harrier - 1 over Wild Woodbury DWT
Great Grey Shrike - 1 Wareham Forest near Sugar Hill
Swallow - 1 over Acton
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still at Louds Mill Dorchester opposite STW (SY709902)
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Castle
Lesser Redpoll - 3 Wareham Forest

Yesterday : 14 Goosander roosted at Silverlake in the evening

Stonechat, Badbury Rings © John Bishop

Wigeon, Stanpit © Clinton Whale


Marsh Tit, Leeson Woods Langton Matravers © Garry Hayman


Saturday 2nd March 2024

Velvet Scoter - 1 past Henistbury Head
Long-tailed Duck - 3 on the Fleet at Littlesea
Grey Partridge - 2 between Martin Down and Garston Wood RSPB
Slavonian Grebe - 5 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point, 2 Jerry's Point
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Jerry's Point, 1 on the Fleet in Cuttcleaves Cove
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit
Spotted Redshank -  2 Middlebere
Caspian Gull - a 2cy at Lodmoor RSPB from viewing shelter
Great Northern Diver - 2 on the Fleet off Tidmoor Point
Spoonbill - 4 Arne RSPB at Shipstal Point
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still at Louds Mill Dorchester opposite STW (SY709902)
Firecrest - 1 Tidmoor Point
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Castle

Meadow Pipit, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Caspian Gull, Lodmoor RSPB © Daragh Croxson

Corn Bunting, near Woodyates © Alan Membury



Redshank, Tidmoor Cove © Steve Mansfield

 

Friday 1st March 2024

Pale-bellied Brent Goose - 3 Brand's Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Brand's Bay
Black-necked Grebe - 1 off Middle Beach, Studland Bay
Knot - 7 Brand's Bay
Spotted Redshank -  2 Middlebere, 1 Holes Bay
Yellow-legged Gull -  a 2cy off Mudeford Quay
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still in Louds Mill Dorchester opposite STW at SY709902
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Water Pipit - 1 Christchurch Harbour Sandspit viewed from Mudeford Quay

Skylark, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

 

Thursday 29th February 2024

Black-throated Diver - 1 off Portland Castle
Great Northern Diver - 1 off Portland Castle
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Redhorn Quay
Merlin - 1 fem/type Wick
Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay
Black Redstart - 1 fem/type Portland Bill, 1 West Bay (opposite Windy Corner cafe)
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill (opposite the water works)

Snipe - Middlebere © Mike Hetherington


Black-headed Gull - Christchurch Quay © Clinton Whale


Wednesday 28th February 2024

Common Scoter - 21 on sea off Hengistbury Hd.
Red-throated Diver - 2 off Hengistbury Hd
Black-throated Diver - 1 off Shipstal Pt Arne RSPB, 1 Poole Bay off Branksome Chine
Great Northern Diver - 10 Poole Bay
Cattle Egret - 2 Longham Lakes
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Christchurch Hbr.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Coombe Arne RSPB, 
Merlin - 1 female seen crossing Poole Bay, 1 fem/type Wick
Purple Sandpiper - 20 Hengistbury on the Sandspit
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere
Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill

Grey Heron - Iford Bridge © Clinton Whale


Tuesday 27th February 2024

Great Northern Diver - 4 from Billy Winters Beach Bar, 1 Tidmoor Pt.
Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Billy Winters Beach Bar, 5 off Tidmoor Pt.
Black-necked Grebe - 3 from Billy Winters, 1 Tidmoor Pt.
Great White Egret - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Spoonbill - 8 Shipstall Pt. Arne RSPB
Red Kite - 3 over Lytchett Bay
White-tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Hbr seen various location today - Lytchett and Brand's Bay and Wareham channel.
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail - Wild Woodbury DWT, 1 Lytchett Bay (from RLVP)
Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill St. Georges Road Dorchester.
Waxwing - 8 Cowley Rd. Nuffield Estate Poole

Yellow-browed Warbler - Loud's Mill © Alan Membury

Redwing - Loud's Mill © Alan Membury



Monday 26th February 2024

Pale-bellied Brent Goose 7 Ferrybridge
Scaup - 2 past Hengistbury Hd.
Long-tailed Duck - 2 Littlesea The Fleet
Red-throated Diver - 3 Portland Bill, 2 past Hengistbury Hd.
Slavonian Grebe - 4 Littlesea The Fleet
Black-necked Grebe - 3 Portland Hbr.
Cattle Egret - 13 Wareham Common
Green Sandpiper - 1 Upton CP.
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere. 1 Lytchett Bay (RLVP)
Little Gull - 1 Portland Hbr.
Yellow-legged Gull - 1 2CY Portland Bill
Swallow - 1 still Radipo;e Lake RSPB
Black Redstart - 1 female type Church Ope Cove

Cormorant - IFord Bridge © Clinton Whale














Redwing - Upton CP © Robert Fielding




Sunday 25th February 2024

Mandarin Duck - 4 Holmebridge 2 pairs 
Long tailed Duck - 2 The Fleet Tidmoor pt Chickerell, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (closed for winter)
Slavonian Grebe - 5 The Fleet Tidmoor pt Chickerell
Black necked Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Pt Studland
Grey Plover - 212 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Bar tailed Godwit - 48 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Dunlin - c4300 Brownsea Lagoon DWT
Sandwich Tern - 1 Holes Bay North of Cobbs Quay
Cattle Egret - 4 Between Hod and Stourpaine
Red Kite - 2 Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay RSPB
Marsh Tit - 1 Thorncombe Woods
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill Sewage works Dorchester
Lesser Redpoll - 1 Thorncombe Woods

2898 Black tailed Godwits - Avon Causeway © Kevin Sayer




Saturday 24th February 2024

Mandarin Duck - 2 Male & female still at Holmebridge 
Goosander - 2 Male & female still at Holmebridge
Black necked Grebe - 1 off Jerry's Point Poole Harbour
Grey Plover - 66 Brand's Bay Studland
Knot - 12 Brand's Bay Studland
Spotted Redshank - 2 Middlebere Channel
Spoonbill - 7 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 41 Swineham Poole Harbour record, 12 Holmebridge
Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail nr Dewlish, 1 Ringtail Arne RSPB
Red Kite - 2 over Hartland Moor
White tailed Eagle - 2 over North Swanage and  Later in the Middlebere Channel & Brand's Bay Salt Marsh 
Merlin - 1 Greenlands Farm Studland
Waxwing - 8 This morning at South Rd Corfe Mullen 
Yellow- browed Warbler - 1 Louds Mill Sewage Works Dorchester 
Black Redstart - 1 Tarrant Rushton
Water Pipit - 1 Crouch Hill Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday
Long tailed  Duck 2 The Fleet Littlesea
Slavonian Grebe - 4  The Fleet Littlesea

Yellow-browed Warbler - Dorchester © Alan Membury







Dark bellied Brent Gosse - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale




Stonechat - Abbotsbury  © Pauline Shave






Friday 23rd February 2024

Mandarin Duck - 2 Holmebridge
Goosander - 2 Holmebridge
Ringed Plover - 28 Hengisbury Head
Black tailed Godwit - 1849 Avon Causeway, 1015 Holes Bay
Knot - 27  Holes Bay
Purple Sandpiper - 24 Hengisbury Head
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Middlebere, 1 Holes Bay
Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Sandwich Tern - 1 Holes Bay
Spoonbill - 7 Wareham Channel
Cattle Egret - 4 Althelhampton
Goshawk - 1 from Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay RSPB
Hen Harrier - 1 Male Middlebere NT Hide
Red Kite - 1 over Christchurch Harbour
White tailed Eagle - 2 Arne RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh
Waxwing - 7 Corfe Mullen, 6 Lyme Regis Golf Club
Redwing - 30 Upton CP, 6 Christchurch Harbour
Black Redstart - Ope Cove Portland

Siskin - Winterbourne Stickland © Will Bown




Purple Sandpiper - Hengisbury Head © Mike Kirby




Waxwing - Lyme Regis Golf Club
©Patrick Riley




Dunlin & Ringed Plover - Hengisbury Head
© Mike Kirby




Little Egret - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale