Dorset Birds: Friday 1st September 2023

Grey Partridge - 3 Maiden Castle
Whimbrel - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay
Ruff - 2 Brand's Bay, 1 Stanpit
Knot - 12 Brand's Bay, 4 Brownsea Island, 2 Stanpit
Sanderling - 5 Hengistbury Head
Black-tailed Godwit - 252 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 150+ Swineham, 111 Brand's Bay
Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Brownsea Island Lagoon, 1 Stanpit
Common Sandpiper -8 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 7 Silverlake, 1 Brand's Bay
Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Green Sandpiper - 8 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Silverlake
Redshank - 161 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 51 Brand's Bay
Greenshank - 12 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Brand's Bay, 1 Stanpit
FORSTER'S TERN - 1st summer at Brownsea Island Lagoon and at Shipstal Point, Arne RSPB
Balearic Shearwater - 166 past Portland Bill
Spoonbill - 42 Brownsea Island Lagoon
Cattle Egret - 22 at evening roost in Christchurch Harbour
Osprey - 4-5 Poole Harbour, 1 Christchurch Harbour
Hobby - 2 over Holton Lee
Wryneck - 1 in garden at Milborne St Andrew
Whitethroat - 30 Durlston CP
Lesser Whitethroat - 3 Durlston CP
Spotted Flycatcher - 6 Durlston CP, 2 Silverlake, 1 Hengistbury Head
Garden Warbler - 1 Durlston CP
Redstart - 22 Durlston CP, 1 Hengistbury Head, 1 Maiden Castle
Whinchat - 1 Hengistbury Head
Wheatear - 10 Christchurch Harbour, 2 Nottington, 2 Maiden Castle
Yellow Wagtail - 4 Swineham, 2 Durlston CP

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.