Dorset Birds: Tuesday 19th July 2022

Dark-bellied Brent Geese - 3 Studland

Golden Pheasant - 1 Holton Lee

Glossy Ibis - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery

Whimbrel - 4 Studland

Common Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields, 1 Stanpit Marsh

Green Sandpiper - 15 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 9 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Swift - 45 Ferrybridge

Garden Warbler - 2 on the Rivers Meet Meadow Christchurch.

Wheatear - 1 Stanpit Marsh

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.