Dorset Birds: Sightings - Sunday 20th March 2011

Scaup - 1 Radipole Lake
Great Northern Diver - 1 Durlston

Bittern - 1 Radipole

Great White Egret - 1 Wych Channel, Arne

Spoonbill - 2 Radipole

Long-billed Dowitcher - Lodmoor

Golden Plover - 300 Tarrant Rushden airfield

Water Pipit - Bere Regis cressbeds
Yellow Wagtail - c3 Top Fields, Portland
Dipper - one near Wareham
Black Redstart - 1 Dancing Ledge, 1 Hengistbury Head
Willow Warbler - singles at Melcombe Regis cemetery and Radipole Lake

Great Grey Shrike - 1 Morden Bog

Brambling - 15-20 Winterborne Whitechurch

Scaup at Radipole Lake © Paul Baker

Golden Plovers at Tarrant Rushton Airfield © Chris Parnell

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.

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