Dorset Birds: Friday 4th November 2022

Common Scoter - 1 Longham Lakes

Wood Pigeon - 29,989 vis mig Poole Harbour, 30,000 vis mig Hengistbury

Black-necked Grebe - 2 Shell Bay

Red-throated Diver - 1 Ringstead Bay, 1 Shell Bay

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spoonbill - 50 Brownsea Island NT lagoon

Cattle Egret - 5 Stoborough, 3 Priory Marsh

Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes

White-tailed Eagle - 1 Poole Harbour

Hen Harrier - Ringtail Durlston CP

Short-eared Owl - 1 Durlston CP

Wryneck - 1 Longham Lakes

Woodlark - 3 vis mig East Bexingtonn

Skylark - 345 vis mig East Bexington, 200 past Down Farm/Wyke Down

Dusky Warbler - 1 Durlston CP

Starling - 925 vis mig East Bexington

Redwing - 858 past Down Farm/Wyke Down, 129 Poole Harbour

Black Redstart - 4 Portland Castle, 1 Marine Theatre Lyme Regis, 1 Weston Portland, 1 Peveril Point Swanage, 2 Durlston CP, 3 Chesil Cove, 1 Winspit Valley

Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Chaffinch - 219 vis mig East Bexington

Brambling - 21 past Down Farm/Wyke Down, 1 Poole Harbour, 4 over Hengistbury

Hawfinch - 3 past Sea View Point Poole, 1 past Stoborough

Redpoll - 9 past Down Farm/Wyke Down, 4 vis mig East Bexington

Siskin - 52 Poole Harbour

Reed Bunting - 5 vis mig East Bexington, 7 past Down Farm/Wyke Down

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.