Dorset Birds: Sunday 12th December 2021

Scaup - 6 Brand's Bay
Velvet Scoter - 1 Studland Bay
Goosander - 1 rehead on Swineham main pit
Red-necked Grebe - 1 off Redhorn Quay
Black-necked Grebe - 2 Studland Bay, 1 Brand's Bay
Sanderling - 22+ Shell Bay/Bramble Bush Bay area
Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Purple Sandpiper -1 Pilot's Point
Spotted Redshank - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Great Northern Diver - up to 5 around Poole Harbour entrance/Shell Bay
Red-throated Diver - 10 Hengistbury
Black-throated Diver - 1 Hengistbury
Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere
Spoonbill - 2 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Hen Harrier - ringtail at Morden Bog
Merlin - 1 male at Forston
Firecrest - 3 Hengistbury, 1 Durlston CP
Hawfinch - 12 Wyke Farm (near Chedington)

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.