Dorset Birds: Sunday 30th July 2023

Barnacle Goose - 1 Holme Lane GP

Turnstone - 8 Hengisbury Head, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Knot - 1 Long Island seen from Arne RSPB

Sanderling - 12 Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside Farm Scrape

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Stilt Pool Swineham, 1 Juvenile off Shipstal beach Arne RSPB

Forster's Tern - 1 off Shipstal Beach Arne RSPB

Storm Petrel - 1 Portland Bill flying west

Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill flying west

Cattle Egret - 49 Marsh Meadow Pool Abbotsbury Swannery

White tailed Eagle - 2 seen from Hydes Heath

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Shell Bay beach end of the boardwalk

Dipper - 2 River Lim Lyme Regis

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.