Dorset Birds: Monday 14th September 2020

Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge
Golden Plover - 1 Eggardon Hill
Pectoral Sandpiper - 2 Swineham on Stilt Pool
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Butterstreet Cove (The Fleet), 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Brand's Bay
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on North Scrape
Glossy Ibis - 1 briefly at Lytchett Fields RSPB this morning
Great White Egret - 3 over Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Avon Causeway
Cattle Egret - 6 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Bestwell RSPB, 1 Bride Valley Fish Farm (near Puncknowle)
Osprey - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 2 Lytchett Bay
Honey-buzzard - 1 north over Portland Bill
Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 The Northe (Weymouth)
Wryneck - 1 Arne RSPB on Raptor Trail
Redstart - 1 Durlston CP
Whinchat - 1 Bride Valley Fish Farm (near Puncknowle), 1 Eggardon Hill

Yesterday : A juvenile Rosy Starling at Portland Bill

Pectoral Sandpipers at Swineham © David Foster

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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