Dorset Birds: Sunday 11th May 2025

Barnacle Goose - 2 Woodsford

Cuckoo - 1 Wytch Farm Norden, 1 Woodsford

Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Common Sandpiper - 1 Stilt Pools Swineham

Manx Shearwater - 35 flew east past St Aldhelms Head

Spoonbill - 5 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB, 1 flew East West Bexington

Cattle Egret - 12 Bog Lane Stoborough

Great White Egret - 1 Bog Lane Stoborough

Osprey - 1 Middlebere female 3H9

Red Kite - 2 Blandford, 1 Poole Harbour

White tailed Eagle - 1 over Compton Abbas Airfield

Hobby - 4 Morden Bog, 1 Child Okeford

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Wytch Farm Norden

Yesterday:

Little Gull - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Black throated Diver - 1 past Portland Bill

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Brownsea Island

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).