Dorset Birds: Tuesday 22nd August 2023

Knot - 3 over Swineham Point

Black-tailed Godwit - c.500 Wareham Channel

Common Sandpiper - 1 Swineham Scrapes

Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham Scrapes

Wood Sandpiper - 2 Swineham GPs

Forster's Tern - 1st summer still at Shipstal Point Arne RSPB

Osprey - 4/5 Wareham Channel

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Puddletown Water Meadows

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Buzzard - 8 Sadborow

Hobby - 3 over Arne

Melodious Warbler - 2 Culverwell Portland Bill

Spotted Flycatcher - 15 Lambert's Hill (Castle), 8 Mill Mead

Pied Flycatcher - 2 Lambert's Hill (Castle)

Redstart - 10 Lambert's Hill (Castle), 1 Sadborow

Spotted Flycatcher, Lambert's Hill © Rodney Gayer

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.