Dorset Birds: Sunday 6th March 2022

Tundra Bean Goose - 3 still beyond Curlew's House, Swineham

Black-necked Grebe - 2 in summer plumage Jerry's Point Poole Harbour

Iceland Gull - 1 - Lodmooor RSPB

Glossy Ibis - 1 Priory Marsh Stanpit

Spoonbill - 2 Over Swineham GP

Cattle Egret - 1 Worgret manor & near Wareham Common

Great white Egret - 1 Frome Flood fields Bog Lane

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Fleetsbridge Poole & later at Swineham Point IOW Reintroduction project

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 east end of Swineham GPs, 1 West Bexington

Brambling - 1 Lychett fields RSPB

Hawfinch - 1 Carey in private garden

Yellowhammer - 60 Eggardon Hill

Cirl Bunting - 1 West Bexington

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.