Dorset Birds: Sunday 23rd October 2022

Barnacle Goose - 1 Swinham

Black - necked Grebe - 3 Studland off Middle Beach

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Red - throated Diver - 2 Poole Harbour

Spoonbill - 61 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 8 Wareham channel

Cattle Egret - 40 Abbotsbury Swannery, 6 Buckland Ripers

Hen Harrier - 1 juv Male Poole Harbour

White Tailed Eagle - 2 Poole Harbour, 2 Povington Hill

Short-eared Owl - 1 White Pits Hengisbury Head

Merlin - 2 Hartland Moor

Hobby - 1 juv Arne RSPB

Raven - 12 Hartland Moor

Woodlark - 1 Durlston CP

Yellow browed Warbler - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Barred Warbler - 1 West Bay coast path

Ring Ouzek - 1 Tidmoor The Fleet, 1 Durlston CP

Brambling - 1 Swineham point

White tailed Eagle - Hartland Moor ©Colin Chainey

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.