Dorset Birds: Tuesday 6th September 2022

Garganey - 1 Radipole Lake, 1 Piddle Valley

Manx Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill

Balearic Shearwater - 52 Portland Bill

Cattle Egret - 11 Stanpit Marsh, 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Osprey - 2 Christchurch Hbr, 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Brand's Bay

Spoonbill - 28 Arne RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper - 5 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Langton Herring

Little Stint - 1 juv Ferrybridge

Common Sandpiper - 11+ Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 8+ Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 15 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Arctic Skua - 1 dark phase Lodmoor RSPB

Black Tern - 1 juv briefly Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Corfe Mullen, 2 Didlington, 1 Wild Woodbury DWT, 1 Wareham Common.

Whinchat - 4 Wild Woodbury DWT, 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Didlington

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.