Dorset Birds: Sightings - Thursday 31st July 2014

Scaup - 1 female still at Abbotsbury Swannery

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel

Knot - 1 Shell Bay, 1 Stanpit

Sanderling - 28 Shell Bay, 8 Christchurch Harbour

Whimbrel - 5 Stanpit, 1 past Portland Bill

Arctic Skua - 1 past Hengistbury Head

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 past Portland Bill, 1 past Hengistbury Head

Little Gull - 1 Stanpit

Hooded Crow - 1 still at the pig farm, The Grove Portland

Redstart - 1 Portland Bill

RARE BREEDING BIRDS

Dorset Bird Club and the Rare Breeding Birds Panel advocate special caution when reporting rare breeding birds as they are vulnerable to persecution and disturbance.

Please consider the birds welfare and do not share details of any rare breeding species on X/Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp groups, personal websites, blogs, or local birdwatching message boards.

We urge all finders of rare birds to consider whether they may be breeding before sharing the news.

Sightings should always be submitted, in confidence, to the county recorder to contribute to long-term national monitoring.