Dorset Birds: Wednesday 5th July 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Stilt Pool Swineham, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Whimbrel- 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 1 Shell Bay Board walk, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Sandwich Tern - 54 Pilots Point Shell Bay Studland

Common Tern - 80 Bramble Bush Bay Studland

Great white Egret - 2 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 Middlebere Channel

White tailed Eagle - 1 seen from Ham Common over Wareham Channel

Great White Egret - Lodmoor RSPB © 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.