Dorset Birds: Sunday 28th April 2024

Little Ringed Plover - 2 Swineham
Whimbrel - 20 Sunnyside Farm, 10 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lytchett Bay, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay
Sanderling - 20 Brownsea Lagoon
Common Sandpiper - 3 Swineham, 3 Hengistbury Head, 2 Stanpit Marsh
Spotted Redshank - 5 Swineham, 1 Lytchett Bay
Greenshank - 6 Swineham, 4 Lytchett Bay

Little Gull - 1st winter at Swineham

Arctic Skua - 1 Hengistbury Head

Hobby - 1 Sunnyside Farm

Garden Warbler - 1 PC World Drain
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 PC World Drain, 1 Sunnyside Farm

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Arne RSPB

Black Redstart - 1 male at West Bay

Whinchat - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Sunnyside Farm
Dipper - 1 Lyme Regis

Wheatear, 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.