Dorset Birds: Saturday 16th April 2022

Green-winged Teal - drake still at Lytchett Fields RSPB

Cuckoo - 1 Ringstead Bay, 1 Pamphill

Purple Sandpipers - 12 Cobb Rock Lyme Regis

Glossy Ibis- 1 still Stanpit Marsh

Cattle Egret - 17 Abbotsbury Swannery

Red Kite - 1 over Martinstown, 2 south of Hardy's monument, 3 circling over Parkstone

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Durlston CP

Nightingale - 1 Durlston CP

Pied Flycatcher - male Weston, Portland

Black Redstart - 2 Hengistbury Head

Blue-headed Wagtail - 1 Ridge

Mandarin Duck, River Stour © John Coleman

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.