Dorset Birds: Thursday 3rd August 2023

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Tidmoor Point, The Fleet
Whimbrel - 5 Holes bay
Black-tailed Godwit - 275 Holes Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Tidmoor Point
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Greenshank - 12 Lytchett Fields, 9 Lytchett Bay
FORSTER'S TERN - 1 still at Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB
Sooty Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay
Whinchat - 1 Wareham Common
Wheatear - 2 Crouch Hill, Stanpit Marsh

Yesterday: -

Storm Petrel - 5 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill

House Sparrow, Hamworthy © Tina Dawkins

Black-tailed Godwits, Lodmoor RSPB © Phil Cheeseman

Linnet, Crouch Hill, 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.

DORSET BIRD REPORT 2023

The Dorset Bird Report 2023, produced by Dorset Bird Club, is now available for purchase by non-members via the DBC website (click on the report cover image below). Featuring a review of the year, a comprehensive systematic list of all species recorded in 2023, rarity finder accounts including the first Moltoni's Warbler and Isabelline Wheatear for Dorset, articles on Baltic Gull, the Alpine Swift influx, Cory's and Great Shearwaters, and the return of the Cirl Bunting. Illustrated throughout with images taken by Dorset's leading photographers. £16 (+ £3 shipping).