Dorset Birds: Sunday 1st November 2020

Whooper Swan - 4 Abbotsbury Swannery

Green-winged Teal - 1 Longham Lakes

Scaup -4 Brand's Bay/Jerry's Point, 3 Abbotsbury Swannery

Black-necked Grebe - 6 Jerry's Point, 3 Studland Bay

Grey Phalarope - 1 Bride Valley Fish Farm, 1 briefly at Ferrybridge

Great Skua - 1 Cogden Beach

Great Northern Diver - 5 Poole Harbour entrance early, later 4 Brand's Bay/Jerry's Point, 2 past Cogden Beach, 1 Longham Lakes

Red-throated Diver - 1 Studland Bay

Leach's Storm Petrel -1 past Chesil Cove

Cattle Egret - 18 roosted at Abbotsbury Swannery, 3 Nottington, 1 Longham Lakes

Great White Egret - 3 Longham Lakes, 1 over Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay

Hen Harrier - 1 Keysworth

Merlin - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Swallow - 8 Durlston CP, 1 Southwell Weymouth

Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury

Rose-coloured Starling - 1 juvenile still at Easton, Portland

Brambling - 2 Hengistbury

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.