Dorset Birds: Saturday 5th November 2022

Common Scoter - 75 through Weymouth Bay

Long-tailed Duck - 1 past Portland Bill

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 juv Lytchett Fields RSPB

Sabine's Gull - juv through Weymouth Bay

Little Gull - 3 1st winter, 1 adult through Weymouth Bay

Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill, 1 past Durlston CP

Red-throated Diver - 1 through Weymouth Bay

Great Northern Diver - 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Longham Lakes, 3 Weymouth Bay

Sooty Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill, 2 past Durlston CP

Cattle Egret- 12 Waddock Cross

Hen Harrier - 1 Ringtail Middlebere

Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston CP

Black Redstart - 1 Peveril Point Swanage, 1 Portland Marina, 2 Durlston CP

Water Pipit - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Pochard, Longham South Lake © Aspen Stobart

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.