Dorset Birds: Tuesday 1st November 2022

Scaup - 2 juveniles at Longham Lakes
Curlew Sandpiper - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Spotted Redshank - 3 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Purple Sandpiper - 2 Chesil Cove
Jack Snipe - 1 flushed at Lytchett Fields RSPB
Grey Phalarope - 2 Hengistbury Head
Little Gull - 2 Chesil Cove
Arctic Skua - 2 Hengistbury Head
Leach's Petrel - 3 Chesil Cove, 2 Hengistbury Head, 1 over The Fleet at Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 Durlston CP
Cattle Egret - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Great White Egret - 1 Longham Lakes
Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Middlebere
Ring Ouzel - 1 Alderholt
Black Redstart - 1 Brooklands Farm DWT HQ (north of Dorchester)

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.