Dorset Birds: Monday 5th September 2022

Brent Goose - 4 Brands Bay

Grey Plover - 1 Brands Bay

Whimbrel - 1 Arne RSPB, 1 Brands Bay

Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 6 Brands Bay, 3 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett fields RSPB

Caspian Gull - 1 Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 11 Brownsea lagoon DWT, 1 Arne RSPB

Cattle Egret - 14 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 8 Radipole RSPB, 6 Lodmoor RPSB

Great White Egret - 1 Over Lytchett Matravers, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Arne RSPB

Hobby - 1 Broadmayne

Whinchat - 1 Wild Woodbury DWT

Yellow Wagtail - 2 Wild Woodbury DWT, 6 Lodmoor RSPB

Ortolan Bunting - Heard flying over Portland Bird Observatory

Ringed Plover - Brands Bay ©Garry Hayman

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.