Dorset Birds: Tuesday 25th March 2025

Garganey - Drake Coward's Marsh

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drake still Longham Lakes

Black-necked Grebe - 6 Portland Harbour

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Dorchester Water Meadows

Purple Sandpiper - 10 Lyme Regic Cobb

Bonapartes Gull - 1 Lower Piddle Valley floods Swineham GPs

Forster's Tern - 1 still Shipstal Point Arne RSPB

Spoonbill - 3 Arne RSPB

Cattle Egret - 24 Holmebridge

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Bournemouth

Black Redstart - 1 Tout Quarry Portland, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 in a Shaftesbury garden

Wheatear - 1 Peveril Point Swanage, 1 Hengistbury Head

Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Reap Lane Portland

White Wagtail - 3 Dorchester Water Meadows

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.