Dorset Birds: Monday 23rd August 2021

Ringed Plover - c30 Brownsea Lagoon

Oystercatcher - c.300 Brownsea Lagoon

Avocet - 24 Middlebere

Black-tailed Godwit - c.90 Middlebere

Knot - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 juvenile Ferrybridge

Dunlin - c.100 Brownsea Lagoon

Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere

Greenshank - 8 Brownsea Lagoon

Balearic Shearwater - 325 flew east off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere, 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 1 Middlebere, 1 Christchurch Harbour, 1 over Lytchett Bay

Melodious Warbler - 1 trapped and ringed at Portland Bird Observatory

Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Durlston CP

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell, Portland

Common Redstart - 1Middlebere

Whinchat - 8 Cogden, 3 Portland

Wheatear - 12 Cogden, 2 Peveril Point Swanage, 2 Durlston CP, 20+ Portland

Yellow Wagtail - 82 Cogden, 2 Durlston CP

Tree Pipit - 3 Portland

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.