Dorset Birds: Saturday 16th August 2025

Garganey - 1 drake at Lodmoor RSPB (present since yesterday)
Whimbrel - 3 Brand's Bay
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Ruff - 1 Brand's Bay
Green Sandpiper - 1 Wareham Channel
Spoonbill - 16 from Coombe Heath, 3 Wareham Channel
Red Kite - 1 Eype
Merlin - 1 Middlebere
Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Hatch Pond, 1 Tadnoll DWT
Redstart - 4 trapped & ringed at Lytchett Bay, 2 Hartland Moor
Whinchat - 5 Hartland Moor
Wheatear -4 Hartland Moor, 2 Brand's Bay

Yesterday : 106 Balearic Shearwaters, 55 Manx Shearwaters and 3 Arctic Skuas past Portland Bill. Also 2 Pied Flycatchers and a Redstart there.

Dartford Warbler, Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman

Whinchat, Hartland Moor © Garry Hayman

Wheatear, Hartland Moor © Colin Chainey

Garganey, Lodmoor RSPB © Dave Chown


Garganey, Lodmoor RSPB © Dave Chown

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

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