14th February Female Scaup still present on South Lake and showing very well. Best of the rest: drake Goldeneye and ad Mediterranean Gull – both on South Lake (George Green). 9th February The Scaup and Goldeneye are still around, together with 2 Mediterranean...

Early October Update

2nd October A very interesting day at Longham Lakes, with the site’s 2nd Avocet swimming in the deep water of Longham Reservoir South this morning, close to the main island. Presumably it was stopping off on its way to Brownsea Island, where these birds winter....

American Wader Touches Down

1st December 2012 Not content with finding Longham Lakes’s first Kittiwake this week, Lorne Bissell has triumped with the discovery of a much rarer bird, a White-rumped Sandpiper. This is the second American vagrant on the site after last year’s...