Dorset Birds: Saturday 28th May 2022

Egyptian Goose - 10 Cowards Marsh

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Little Tern - 2 Brownsea Lagoon

Spoonbill - 3 Middlebere

Red Kite - 97 over Abbotsbury Swannery, 6 Bothenhampton, 1 Piddletown

Hobby - 2 Lower Bockhampton, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Silverlake

Garden Warbler - 1 Silverlake

Turnstone - Lyme Regis Cobb

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.