Dorset Birds: Sightings - Wednesday September 2nd 2020

Garganey - juv still Radipole north screen

Western Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Spoonbill - 27 Brownsea Island NT lagoon

Osprey - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Middlebere 1 Coombe Heath NR

Merlin - 1 Durlston CP

Avocet - 15 Middlebere

Golden Plover - 1 Eggardon Hill

Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Black-tailed Godwit - c200 Middlebere

Curlew - 200+ Arne Bay

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields

Greenshank - 5 Lytchett Fields

Wryneck - 1 Maiden Castle

Yellow Wagtail - 10+ Stonebarrow

Redstart - 15 Durlston CP, 1 Hog Hill, 1 St Aldhelm's Head, 2 Eggardon Hill

Whinchat - 5 Maiden castle, 3 Durlston CP, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh,

1 Winspit Valley,1 Eggardon Hill

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP

(Apparent 1st summer dark morph Eleanora's Falcoln photographed at Lytchett Bay on August 25th )

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.