Dorset Birds: Friday 6th October 2023

Common Scoter - 1 Poole Bay offshore

Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Grey Phalarope - 1st winter by Chesil car park Ferrybridge

Greenshank - 1 Lytchett Bay

Forster's Tern - 2nd winter again at Shipstal Point

Spoonbill - 76 Brownsea Lagoon

Great White Egret - 1 Middlebere

Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Merlin - 1 near the castle Durlston CP, 1 Middlebere

Firecrest - 5 Turlin Screen Lytchett Bay

Lesser Redpoll - 1 Poole Harbour

Shoveler, Radipole RSPB © Clinton Whale

Greenshank,Stanpit © Dave Hill

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.

DORSET BIRD REPORT 2023

The Dorset Bird Report 2023, produced by Dorset Bird Club, is now available for purchase by non-members via the DBC website (click on the report cover image below). Featuring a review of the year, a comprehensive systematic list of all species recorded in 2023, rarity finder accounts including the first Moltoni's Warbler and Isabelline Wheatear for Dorset, articles on Baltic Gull, the Alpine Swift influx, Cory's and Great Shearwaters, and the return of the Cirl Bunting. Illustrated throughout with images taken by Dorset's leading photographers. £16 (+ £3 shipping).