Dorset Birds: Friday 7th May 2021

Long-tailed Duck - 1st winter drake still at Silverlake

Whiskered Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Great Northern Diver - 3 passed Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery,3 Frome Valley

Short-eared Owl - 1 Redcliffe Point Weymouth, 1 Portland Bill

Golden Oriole - 1 briefly at Cerne Abbas

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 private garden Easton

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Greenlands Farm Studland

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Hengistbury Head

Black Redstart - 1 Portland Bill

Whinchat - 1 Talbot Heath, 1 ringed Durlston CP, 1 Greenlands Farm Studland, 3 Wick Fields

Tawny Pipit - 1 Cogden Beach

Serin - 1 Portland Bird Observatory

Tawny Pipit, Cogden Beach © Peter Coe

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.