Dorset Birds: Friday 11th December 2020

Long-tailed Duck - 2 Tidmoor Point The Fleet, 3 off Jerry's Point, 1 central Poole Harbour

Velvet Scoter - 1 Tidmoor Point The Fleet

Eider - 1 Lyme Regis

Pintail - 140 Brand's Bay

Scaup - 4 off Jerry's Point, 4 Lodmoor RSPB

Great Northern Diver - 8 Poole Harbour, 1 River Frome Wareham

Slavonian Grebe - 3 Tidmoor Point The Fleet

Black-throated Diver - 1 Whitley Bay Poole Harbour
Great Egret - 1 Moors Valley CP

Cattle Egret - 4 Hengistbury Head with the Glossy Ibis
Glossy Ibis - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Sanderling - 23 Bramble Bush Bay

Swallow - 1 Blacknor Portland
Black Redstart - 1 Church Ope Cove
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Pennsylvania Castle Wood

Eider Lyme Regis (C) Roger Boswell

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.