Dorset Birds: Sightings - Friday 28th September 2018

Cattle Egret - 1 Abbotsbury

Great White Egret - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Osprey - 1 Abbotsbury, 1 Radipole RSPB

Merlin - 1 St.Aldhelm's Head

Hobby - 1 Radipole RSPB

Golden Plover - 2 over St.Aldhelm's Head

Grey Phalarope - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 still at Lodmoor RSPB

Whinchat - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Common Rosefinch - 1 trapped at Portland Bill

Curlew at Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Wheatear at Stanpit © Clinton Whale

Lesser Yellowlegs at Lodmoor RSPB © Janice Grove

Greenshank and Lesser Yellowlegs at Lodmoor RSPB © Janice Grove

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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