Dorset Birds: Thursday 17th February 2022

Pintail - 49 Holes Bay

Black-necked Grebe - 4 off Middle Beach Studland

Sanderling - 5 Bramble Bush Bay

Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay

Glossy Ibis - 1 Hengisbury Head into roost

Cattle Egret - 12 Hengisbury Head

Great White Egret - 2 mouth of Piddle River Wareham Channel

Marsh Harrier - 2 Wareham Channel

Merlin - 1 Luscombe Valley LNR Poole, 1 Hartland Moor

Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 Middle Beach Car Park Studland

Woodlark - 2 Silverlake

Firecrest - 2 Corfe River Valley

Black Redstart - 1 male at Tilly Whims Durlston CP, 1 Newtons Cove

Lesser Redpoll - 1 Corfe River Valley

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.