Dorset Birds: Saturday 8th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes

Common Scoter - 8 off Chesil Portland

Golden Plover - 100 Came Down

Grey Plover - 5 Stanpit Bight

Sanderling - 2 Stanpit Marsh

Purple Sandpiper - 4 Portland Bill

Red throated Diver - 2 off Portland Bill

Great Northern Diver - 2 The Fleet Ferrybridge

Great White Egret - 3 Arne Moor, 1 Silverlake

Red Kite - 5 over Lytchett Matravers, 1 Came Down, 1 over Wareham, 1 Pentridge Down

White tailed Eagle - 3 Arne RSPB, 2 Avon Valley, 1 St Aldhelms

Merlin - 1 Poole Harbour, 1 Came Down

Fieldfare - 50 Hartland Stud, 50 Bradbury Rings, 15 Pentridge Down

Wheatear - 2 Reap Lane Portland Bill

Cirl Bunting 6 Dew pool Durlston CP

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).