Dorset Birds: Sunday 21st September 2025

Glossy Ibis - 6 Lytchett Fields RSPB (in Pools Fields)

Spoonbill - 70 Brownsea Lagoon

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Ham Common LNR

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Little Ringed Plover - 1CY Stanpit Marsh

Little Stint - 6 Ferrybridge

Curlew Sandpiper - 6 Middlebere Channel, 5 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Hengistbury Hd. 1 Stanpit Marsh

Ruff - 2 Middlebere Channel

Common Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel

Green Sandpiper - 2 Wareham Channel

Greenshank - 20 Brownsea Lagoon

Grey Phalarope - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (flew towards West Bexington)

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 1st/W Silverlake

Forster's Tern - 1 ad. off Rockley/Ham Common

ALPINE SWIFT - 1 over Portland Obs heading towards Culverwell

Wryneck - 1 Portland Bill, 1 Silverlake

Redstart - 1 Silverlake

Whinchat - 2 Ballard Down

Wheatear - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Crossbill - 25 Culpepper Dish

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).