Green Land's Farm and Brand's Bay

Today I had booked on to the Birds of Poole Harbour guided walk at Greenlands with Paul Morton, with the hope of catching up with some returning mirgrants. One of the bird seen this day I was pleased to see as I thought I was going to struggle to one of these as I should have already seen one but I seemed not to be able to find any which I thought was very odd. The bird in queston was a humble Goldfinch.

Goldfinch

The picture of the Goldfinch was taken in my garden as Ihave not got any picture of the as with taking my binoculars and carting my scope about I did not bother to take my camera which is a shame as landscape in very nice. so what species and any new birds did I see on this guided walk.

Goldfinch #
Skylark #
Linnet #
Mistle Thrush
Pied Wagtail
Chaffinch
Dunnock
Blackbird
Stonechat
Dartford Warbler #
Northern Wheatear #

Brand's Bay
Surf Scoter #
Sandwich Tern #
Common Gull #
Peregrine
Buzzard
Shelduck
Brent Goose
Little Egret
Mallard

Brand's Bay Brent Geese

Durlston Country Park

Durlston Globe

A wonderful sunny and warm morning visit to Durlston to  look for the Guillemots,
It was long before I was walking along the Cliff path towards the ledge were you can look over the Cliff to see the Guillemots, and I was not disappointed with a very large raft of birds on the water. While standing there watching the Guillemots I noticed a bird just gliding along just above the waves with stiff dark grey wings looking through my Collins bird guide I soon found that I was watching a Fulmar my first official ( though I think I must of seen them before on walks there in the past) sighting while bird watching.
Birds seen on this trip were

Fulmar #
Herring Gull #
Great Black-backed Gull #
Guillemot #
Stock Dove #
Raven #
Cormorant
Kestrel
Dunnock
Robin
Blue Tit
Blackbird
Chaffinch
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw

Look across to Durlston Light House

Badbury Rings

Badbury Rings is a Iron Aged Hill Fort ,though it gets busy I have found it an interesting place to go and look for birds with Oak Wood and High Wood with in the compex.

Firsts a radom sighting on the way
Collard Dove #

Birds seen on walks round this area .
# Rooks there is a nice Rookery just as you are entering the site off the B3082 along the beech avenue.
Jackdaws
Long-tailed Tits
Buzzards
Robin
Great Tits
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Pheasant
Chaffinch
House Sparrow
Blue Tits
Treecreeper #
Marsh Tit = lifer #
Blackbird
Woodpigeons
Nuthatch

Marsh Tit @ Badbury Rings  © M.Wood