Dorset Birds: Monday 2nd October 2023

Dark-bellied Brent Goose - 1 Stanpit Marsh

Grey Plover - 2 Brands Bay

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 Brands Bay, 1 Stanpit

Black-tailed Godwit - 482 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 100 Brands Bay

Knot - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Brands Bay

Ruff - 3 Stanpit

Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Common Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 8 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Redshank - 176 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spoonbill - 74 Brownsea Lagoon

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor

Osprey - 1 Lodmoor

Greenshank - 8 Lytchett Fields RSPB, 2 Brands Bay

Wryneck - 1 near coastgurd cottages West Bexington

Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 Hut Fields Portland, 1 Bumpers Lane Portland

Spotted Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell Portland, 2 Portland Castle

Wheatear - 5 Crouch 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.