Dorset Birds: Monday 2nd May 2022

Mandarin Duck - 2 on the River Stour by Canford School

Nightjar - 1 Rempstone Forest

Cuckoo - 1 Piddles Wood, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 West Compton, Rempstone Forest

Ringed Plover - 16 Ferrybridge

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Lyme Regis Cobb

Common Sandpiper - 4 Longham Lakes

Little Gull - 1 off Hengisbury Head

Black Tern - 1 off Hengisbury Head

Arctic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Garden Warbler - 2 Hengisbury Head Nursery, 1 Cogden

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Portland in private garden

Pied flycatcher - 1 Portland nr Weston Street

Black redstart - 1 Portland Bill, Easton in private garden

Whinchat - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Stanpit Marsh, Greenland Farm Studland

Tree Pipit - 1 Rempstone Forest

Brambling - 2 South Haven

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.