First of all, from all of us here at Birds of Poole Harbour, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. We hope you’ve had a great day and that 2024 has delivered all the great birds you’d hoped hope. We can’t wait to see what 2025 brings, whether it be lifers, year ticks or multiple Osprey and eagle nests, we’ll make sure we update you all as best we can on the evolution and dynamics of Poole Harbours incredible bird life over the course of the year.

Well, todays fog and mist didn’t help things but a Velvet Scoter through the harbour entrance at dawn was a great way to celebrate Christmas Day. There was 1 Slavonian Grebe off Jerry’s Point with 2 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Long-tailed Duck, the 1st winter male Eider and 6 Great Northern Diver, plus a fly by of one of the juvenile White-tailed Eagles from yesterday. Out in Studland Bay there were another 2 Slavonian Grebe, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 8 Common Scoter and 1 Black-necked Grebe.