Dorset Birds: Tuesday December 2nd 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 2 Arne Moors

Velvet Scoter - 1 from Jerry's Point Poole Harbour

Long-tailed Duck - 1 fem - ale type Hive Point Chickerell

Slavonian Grebe - 1 Jerry's Point Poole Harbour

Black-necked Grebe - 12 Poole Harbour with 4 off Middle beach Studland Bay

Avocet - 125 Middlebere, 255 Holes Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 1 Silverlake, 631 Holes Bay

Knot - 23 Holes Bay

Purple Sandpiper - 12 from Mudeford Quay

Green Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Silverlake

Red-throated Diver - 1 off Jerry's Point

Great Northern Diver - 12 Poole Harbour

Glossy Ibis - 9 on flooded field south of main pit Swineham GPs

Cattle Egret - 20 Holmebridge

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Marsh Harrier - 2 Middlebere, 4 Swineham

Red Kite - 1 seen west of Puddletown

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham channel

Black Redstart - 2 Camp Road Wyke

Desert Wheatear - still in horse field by Camp Road Wyke (DT4 9HE)

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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