Dorset Birds: Friday 14th July 2023

Common Scoter - 24 east from Wyke Bridging Camp, 17 Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 22 Portland Bill, 1east Wyke Bridging Camp

Balearic Shearwater - 2 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 8 in meadow at Stoborough

Spoonbill - 5 Middlebere, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 Poole Hbr (not one of the breeding pair)

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Holme GP.

Common Sandpiper - 7 Wyke Bridging Camp, 2 Holme Lane GP, 1 Stanpit, 1 Ferrybridge

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Arctic Skua - 1 off Shore Mudeford Quay

Yellow-legged Gull - 29+ Portland Bill

Little Tern - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Mute Swan - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

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.