Dorset Birds: Friday 20th October 2023

Black necked Grebe - 2 Studland Bay, 1 off Jerry's Point towards Redhorn Pt

Golden Plover - 60 Lodmoor RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Little Gull- 1 Kimmeridge Bay near the waterfall

Glossy Ibis - 1 over Shag Looe in the Wareham Channel flying towards Swineham

Spoonbill - 5 Lytchett Bay

Cattle Egret - 3 Stanpit Marsh

Great White Egret - 4 Lodmoor RSPB, 2 Little Sea Studland, 1 Brands Bay

Osprey - 1 Wareham Channel and Lytchett Bay

Hen Harrier - 1 ringtail Swineham

Red Kite - 4 Wyke Down, 2 over Holten Lee, over Lodmoor RSPB

White tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Short eared Owl -1 Portland Bill

Merlin - 2 Wyke Down, 1 Durlston CP

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Arne RSPB in the car park

Garden Warbler -1 Durlston CP

Black Redstart - 1 Durlston CP

Common Redstart - 1 Bridport (Palmers Allotments)

Water Pipit - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Lesser Redpoll - 103 Ballard Down, 100 Durlston CP

Yesterday:

Little Gull - 1 Silverlake

Cory's Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 9 East over West Bexington and then briefly at Lodmoor RSPB

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.