Dorset Birds: Friday 14th January 2022

Whooper Swan - 1 Hampreston fields, Longham Lakes

Scaup - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery (Swannery closed - view distantly from New Barn Road)

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter female Abbotsbury Swannery and later on pond at West Bexington

Slavonian Grebe - 3 off Jerry's Point

Black-necked Grebe - 15 still off Middle Beach Cafe, Studland Bay

Grey Plover - 9 Stanpit Bight

Black-tailed Godwit - 1 Puddletown Water Meadows, 130 Stanpit Bight, 500 Holes Bay

Knot - 8 Stanpit Bight

Ruff - 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Dunlin - 180 Stanpit Bight

Purple Sandpiper - 1 on the Groynes at Sandbanks
Green Sandpiper - 1 Silverlake, 1 Puddletown Water Meadows

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay

Iceland Gull - 2nd winter Lodmoor RSPB

Great Northern Diver - 1 Jerry's Point, 1 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB

Black-throated Diver - 1 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB

Spoonbill - 3 Lytchett Bay, 1 Lodmoor RSPB

Western Cattle Egret - 2 Holwell Farm Buckland Ripers

Merlin - 1 over Stanpit Marsh

Black Redstart - 1 Tilly Whim Caves Durlston CP, 1 Chesil Cove Portland

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.