Dorset Birds: Thursday 24th November 2022

Velvet Scoter - 2 Hengistbury
Green Sandpiper - 1 from approach road to Silverlake
Woodcock - 5 ringed at Sunnyside Farm last night
Jack Snipe - 3 ringed at Sunnyside Farm last night
Kittiwake - 750+ west Weymouth Bay, 750+ past West Bay, 204 Peveril Point
Little Gull - 4 West Bay, 3 Hengistbury, 1 Weymouth Bay
Sabine's Gull - 1 west in Weymouth Bay
Pomarine Skua - 1 Weymouth Bay
Great Northern Diver - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Poole Harbour entrance, 1 West Bay
Red-throated Diver - 1 Poole Harbour entrance
Leach's Petrel - 1 east past West Bay, 1 probable in Weymouth Bay
Cattle Egret - 30 between Portesham and Abbotsbury
Firecrest -1 Abbotsbury STW

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.