Dorset Birds: Sunday 3rd July 2022

Quail - at least 2 singing alongside Dorchester to Piddlehinton Road
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 2 Stanpit
Great White Egret - 1 Radipole Lake RSPB, 1 Bride Valley Fish Farm
Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB
Lesser Whitethroat - 6 trapped & ringed at Durlston CP
Black Redstart - family in a Poole garden

Whitethroat, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

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.