Dorset Birds: Tuesday 30th March 2021

Ring-necked Duck - 1 Longham Lakes female still on North lake

Common Scoter - 162 Portland Bill Observatory

Long-tailed Duck - 2 South Deep Poole Harbour, 1 1st/w still at Silverlake

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Poole Harbour

Red-throated Diver - 5 past Portland Bill.

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel seen with fish on mudflat, 1 over Lytchett Bay, 1 over east Shilinghampton Farm

Little Ringed Plover - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB approach field, 1 Swineham

Whimbrel - 1 past Portland Bill

Little Gull - 5 past Portland Bill

Sandwich Tern - 37 past Portland Bill, 2 Long island sandspit Poole Harbour

Artic Skua - 1 past Portland Bill

Puffin - 5 Dancing Ledge

Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island lagoon

Red Kite - 1 Over Lytchett Bay

Swallow - 3 Poole Harbour, 3 Langton Matraves, 1 Langton Herring, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Tree Pipit - 1 calling whilst flying over Ladymead Portland

Sedge Warbler - 1 Avon Valley

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 heard reeling in the Avon Valley

Peregrine Falcon - Bournemouth ©David Wareham

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.