Dorset Birds: Tuesday 3rd May 2022

Cuckoo - 1 calling between Bridging Camp & Littlesea

Little ringed Plover - 3 Radipole RSPB, 2 Lytchett Fileds RSPB

Bar tailed Godwit - 45 Ferrybridge

Wood sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB postbox pool

Arctic Skua - 1 East past Durlston CP

Great Northern Diver - 1 flying west off Durlston CP

Manx shearwater - 4 flew west Durlston CP

Spoonbill - 5 middlebere, 4 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Great White Egret - 3 flew down piddle Valley nr wareham

Garden Warbler - 10 The Hump Portland

Ring Ouzel - 2 Portland Bill top field

Whinchat - 2 Portland Bill top field

Ring Ouzel - Portland ©Daniel Law

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.