Dorset Birds: Saturday 7th January 2023

Scaup - 6 Tidmoor Point The Fleet

Eider - 3 Poole Harbour, 2 Portland Harbour off Sandsfoot Castle

Ruff - Pool field Lytchett Fields RSPB

Purple Sandpiper - 3 Mudeford Quay

Spotted Redshank - 2 Rock Lea viewpoint Lytchett Bay

Little Gull - 1 Lynch Cove The Fleet, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Red throated Diver - 1 Poole Harbour Entrance

Black throated Diver - 1 Mudeford Quay

Great Northern Diver - 3 off Sandbanks

Hen Harrier - 1 grey male Poole Harbour Boat Cruise, 2 Middlebere

White Tailed Eagle - 1 Morden Bog (IOW introduction)

Firecrest - 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Middlebere hide

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.