Dorset Birds: Sightings - Wednesday 16th November 2016

Long-tailed Duck - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Goosander - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery
Great Northern Diver - 1 through Christchurch Harbour
Bittern - 1 Stanpit Marsh
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Portland Harbour
Common Crane - 3 over Christchurch Harbour
Purple Sandpiper - 15 Hengistbury Head
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Lytchett Fields
Great Skua - 2 past Portland Bill
Great Grey Shrike - 1 still at Morden Bog
Firecrest - 3 Hengistbury Head
Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Portland Harbour
Black Redstart - 1 Poole

Buzzard at Holes Bay © David Wareham

Kestrel at Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

Purple Sandpiper at Hengistbury Head © Clinton Whale

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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