Dorset Birds: Friday 29th May 2026

Cuckoo - 1 Middlebere NT Hide

Common Sandpiper - 1 Peveril Point

Caspian Gull - 1 Possible from Rock Lea VP Lytchett Bay

Little Tern - 2 Wareham Channel

Roseate Tern - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Storm Petrel - 2 From Lyme Bay Pelagic trip out of Portland

Balearic Shearwater - 1 From Lyme Bay Pelagic trip out of Portland, 1 East off Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 4 Middlebere Channel, 2 in off the sea Kimmeridge

Red Kite - 9 over Poole Harbour entrance, 7 Spyway, 6 over Brownsea Laggon, 5 Kimmeridge Bay

White tailed Eagle - 1 Kimmeridge Bay

Melodious warbler - 1 trapped and ringed Cluverwell Portland

Marsh Tit - 1 Garston Wood

Tree Sparrow - 1 trapped and ringed Crown Estate Field Portland Bill Obs

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 social media, 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.