Dorset Birds: Monday 28th August 2023

Scaup - 1 Puddletown Water meadows
Ringed Plover - 165 Ferrybridge, 65 Stanpit Marsh

Knot - 15 Middlebere

Ruff - 1 Stilt Pool Swineham

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Arne Moor

Spotted Redshank - 9 Middlebere, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow legged Gull - 4 Swineham

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 Arne RSPB Shipstal Point

Artic Skua - 1 going West off St Aldhelms

Balearic Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 4 Arne RSPB

Osprey - 3 Lytchett Bay, 2 Middlebere, 1 Over Portland Bill

Hobby - 2 Arne RSPB, 2 St Aldhelms

Spotted Flycatcher - 50 West Morden

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Wick Hengisbury Head

Redstart - 5 Durlston CP, 2 Stour V LNR, 2 Middlebere Plateway, 1 Hog Hill, 1 Osmington Mills, Hartland Moor

Whinchat - 3 Hog Hill, 1 Stanpit

Yellow wagtail - 20 Hartland Stud, 6 Swineham, 5 Stanpit, 2 St Aldhelms

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.