Dorset Birds: Sunday 17th August 2025

Goosander - 1 Redhead at Stanpit Marsh

Whimbrel - 4 Stanpit Marsh. 4 Brands Bay, 3 off Green Island Poole Harbour

Knot - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Abbotsbury west of Swannery, 1 Sunnyside Farm

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 19 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow - legged Gull - 14 Arne Moor, 1 off Green Island Poole Harbour

Spoonbill - 21 Middlebere Avocet hide, 16 Wareham Channel

Cattle Egret - 1 Wick Hengisbury Head

Osprey - 4 Lytchett Bay RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel

Hobby - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Holt Heath, 1 Fontmell, 1 Wild Woodbury

Sedge Warbler - 15 Wick Hengisbury Head

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Hartland Moor, 1 Wild Woodbury, 1 Fontmell

Redstart - 4 Fontmell, 3 Hartland Moor, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Whinchat - 2 Hartland Moor, 1 Fontmell

Wheatear - 10 West of Abbotsbury Swannery, 7 Hartland Moor

Yellow Wagtail - 36 west of Abbotsbury Swannery, 7 Stanpit Marsh, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Hartland Moor

Starlings - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

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).