Dorset Birds: Monday 11th September 2023

Barnacle Goose - 6 Silverlake East Lake

Pochard - 20 Silverlake East Lake

Cuckoo - 1 Arne RSPB behind Middlebere lookout

Ruff - 8 Lower Piddle Valley Pool then flew towards Swineham

Sanderling - 3 Hengistbury Head inner sandspit

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow legged Gull - 2 Stilt Pool Swineham

FORSTER'S TERN - 1 2nd calendar year Arne RSPB Shipstal Point

Pomarine Skua - 1 from Lyme Bay Pelagic

Storm Petrel -20 from Lyme Bay Pelagic

Spoonbill - 48 Brownsea Lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 1 Lower Piddle Valley Swineham

Great White Egret - 1 Silverlake East Lake

Osprey - 2 Brands Bay, 2 Arne RSPB Middlebere lookout, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 1 Wareham Channel from Ham Common VP

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.