Dorset Birds: Wednesday 3rd July 2024

Avocet - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Silverlake, 4 Swineham

Black-tailed Godwit - 4 Lytchett Fields

Common Sandpiper - 2 Silverlake, 1 Swineham

Green Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake, 3 Lytchett Fields

Greenshank - 1 Silverlake, 1 Lytchett Fields

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake

Red Kite - 1 Shillingstone

Backbird, 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.