Dorset Birds: Saturday 29th November 2025

Barnacle Goose - 50+ Middlebere Channel

Velvet Scoter - 2 Off Jerry's Point Studland

Common Scoter - 3 Bowleaze Cove

Slavonian Grebe - 1 off Redhorn Quay Brands Bay and 1 off Brownsea Island

Black necked Grebe - 7 off Green Island Poole Harbour

Whimbrel - 1 Tidmoor Pt The Fleet

Knot - 7 Holes Bay

Ruff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Red throated Dicer - 1 Bowleaze Cove / Redcliff Pt

Black throated Diver - 1 Bowleaze Cove

Great Northern Diver - 1 off Redhorn Quay Brands Bay

Spoonbill - 18 Holes Bay

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere Channel

Hen Harrier - 1 past Middlebere NT hide

Merlin - 1 Hartland Moor

Desert Wheatear - 1 Bridging Camp Wyke Regis

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).