Dorset Birds: Sightings - Wednesday 7th September 2016

Garganey - 1 Priory Marsh Christchurch Harbour
BLACK STORK - 1 north over Portland
Osprey - 1 Lytchett Bay, 2 Middlebere
Little Stint - 1 Lytchett Fields, 2 West Bexington, 1 Lodmoor
Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields
Black Tern - 1 Hengistbury Head
Wryneck - 1 north Lodmoor
Turtle Dove - 1 Hengistbury Head
Swallow - 7500 Hengistbury Head
Yellow Wagtail - 95 Stanpit Marsh
Tree Pipit - 23 Hengistbury Head
Whinchat - 8 West Bexington
Grasshopper Warbler - 10 ringed at Durlston

Greenshank Holloway's Dock © Clinton Whale

Pale-bellied Brent Geese (yesterday) © Brett Spencer

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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