Sightings - Thursday 1st January 2015

Red-Necked Grebe - 1 Hengistbury Head, 2 Studland (1 South Beach, 1 Shell Bay).
Black-Necked Grebe - 8 Studland.
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Studland.
Great White Egret - 1 Studland.
Spoonbill - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Brownsea, 1 Holes Bay, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Newtons Bay, 2 Wytch Channel.
Hen Harrier - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere; 5 at a roost in Poole Harbour.
Marsh Harrier - 3 Lytchett Bay, 2 Swineham.
Merlin - 1 Middlebere.
Grey Plover - 15 Lytchett Bay, 6 Middlebere.
Knot - 10 Fitzworth.
Sanderling - 30 Bramble Bush Bay.
Spotted Redshank - 3 Holes Bay, 1 Middlebere, 1 Stanpit.
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wytch Causeway.
Purple Sandpiper - 3 Poole Harbour mouth, 4 Portland Bill.
Great Skua - 1 Ferrybridge, 4 Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head.
Pomarine Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Little Gull - 1 Furzey Island, 1 Lytchett Bay (probably the same bird).
Black Guillemot - 1 Brownsea Island, 1 Portland Harbour.
Water Pipit - a probable at Swineham.
Richards' Pipit - 1 near Redcliff Point.
Firecrest - 1 Pennsylvania Castle, 1 Rempstone area.


Purple Sandpiper at Sandbanks © Katie Horrocks

Purple Sandpiper at Sandbanks © Katie Horrocks