Dorset Birds: Tuesday 8th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 still Swineham Point

Garganey - 1 Coward's Marsh

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drakestill on south lake of Longham Lakes

Avocet - 21 Brownsea Lagoon

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Lytchett Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 511 Holes Bay

Greenshank - 4 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 2 Middlebere

Red Kite - 1 over Lytchett RSPB, 1 over Martinstown, 1 Arne, 2 Cerne Abbas

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Arne RSPB

Short-eared Owl - 1 over Barn Field Hengistbury Head

Hoopoe - 1 briefly at Lodmoor, 1 briefly Cliff Road Burton Bradstock

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 No dogs field Hengistbury Head, 1 Ballard Down

Nightingale - 1 in Long Field Hengistbury

Subalpine Warbler - still present c.300m north of West Weymouth police station

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell Portland

Ring Ouzel - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Portland top fields

Black Redstart - 2 King Barrow quarries Portland

Meadow Pipit, Hengistbury © John Bishop

Wheatear, Hengistbury © John Bishop

Subalpine Warbler, Portland © Simon

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).