Dorset Birds: Tuesday 4th July 2023

Swift - 140 Over Lytchett Fields RSPB flying towards Holton Lee

Common Sandpiper - 3 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Silverlake

Green Sandpiper - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Spotted Redshank - 1 summer plumage in Middlebere Channel

Greenshank - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Spoonbill - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB then flew into the Bay

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 flew North over Stanpit Marsh

Osprey - 1 Arne RSPB over Coombe Heath

Yesterday: Balearic Shearwater - 10 Past Portland Bill

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.