Dorset Birds: Wednesday 11th May 2022

Wigeon - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 1 Holloway's Dock

Black-tailed Godwit - 104 Holloway's Dock

Sanderling - c.50 Pilot's Point Shell Bay, 19 Christchurch Harbour beach

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Peveril Point Swanage

Red-necked Phalarope - 1 Pilot's Point Studland

Greenshank - 1 Holloway's Dock

Little Gull - 1st summer past Mudeford Quay

Glaucous Gull - 1 probable flew from Lodmoor to Weymouth Bay

Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill, 1 past Mudeford Quay

Great Northern Diver - 12 past Portland Bill

Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 4 Middlebere

Cattle Egret - 5 Wareham, 3 Middlebere

Short-eared Owl - 1 in the dunes at Studland

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.