Dorset Birds: Tuesday 10th May 2022

Brent Goose - 3 Brands Bay Studland, 1 Stanpit

Grey Plover - 1 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel -3 Brands Bay Studland, 2 Christchurch Harbour

Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Stanpit

Turnstone - 2 Peveril Point Swanage

Knot - 4 Brownsea NT

Purple Sandpiper - 19 The Cobb Lyme Regis, 4 Peveril Point Swanage

Little Tern - 2 Lytchett Bay

Roseate Tern - 1 briefly at Lodmoor and Weymouth Bay, 2 on lagoon Brownsea Island NT

Pomarine Skua - 2 past Portland Bill, 4 past Chesil Cove, 1 past Camp Road Wyke Regis

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Durlston CP

Dipper - 1 on River Lim Lyme Regis

Common Tern, Brownsea NT © Clive and Rosemary Hargrave

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.