Dorset Birds: Sightings - Saturday 20th January 2018

Scaup - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor

Eider - 1 male Portland Harbour
Common Scoter - 1 Weymouth Bay
Red Throated Diver - 4 off the Bill, Portland
Black Throated Diver - 1 Portland Harbour

Great Northern Diver - 3 Portland Harbour, 1 Jerrys Point, Poole Harbour, 1 Weymouth Bay
Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Knoll Beach car park, Studland

Black Necked Grebe - 4 off Knoll Beach car park, Studland, 1 Jerrys Point, Poole Harbour, 16 Portland Harbour
Red Necked Grebe - 1 Weymouth Bay
Great Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Spoonbill - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch, 1 Lodmoor-(colour ringed bird)

Hen Harrier - 2 male, 1 female, West Poole Harbour

Merlin - 1 male, 1 female, West Poole Harbour, 1 Top Fields, Portland
Purple Sandpiper - 7 Portland at the Bill
Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh & then later at Cowards Marsh, Christchurch
Razorbill - 15 Portland Harbour
Short Eared Owl - 1 Portland at the Bill
Water Pipit -1 Parky Meade Rail, Stanpit Marsh
Siberian Chiffchaff - 2 Kinson sewage works by perimeter fence-Stour Valley LNR
Firecrest - 1 Abbotsbury Gardens, 1 Cattistock Churchyard,
Great Grey Shrike - 1 (yesterday Friday 19/01/2018 Morden Bog)
Brambling - 1 Well Bottom, Ashmore

Redpoll 1 Well Bottom, Ashmore

Hawfinch - 26 New Road, Lower Bryanston, 15 Cattistock Churchyard, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Well Bottom, Ashmore, 1 Kinson sewage works by perimeter fence-Stour Valley LNR