Dorset Birds: Saturday 1st July 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Stanpit, 2 Lytchett Fields

Curlew - 47 Holes Bay, 9 Stanpit

Bar-tailed Godwit - 27 Newton Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 17 Coombe Heath NR, 4 Holes Bay

Redshank - 94 Holes Bay, 16 Lytchett Fields

Spoonbill - 1 Coombe Heath, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 Christchurch Harbour (Fisherman's Bank)

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.