Dorset Birds: Wednesday 4th October 2023

Bar-tailed Godwit - 4 Ferrybridge, 6 Brownsea

Black-tailed Godwit - c.200 Swineham

Knot - 2 Ferrybridge, 7 Shipstal beach Arne

Ruff - 1 Silverlake

Curlew Sandpiper - 4 Holes Bay, 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 2 Swineham

Spotted Redshank - 2 Holes Bay 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank - 12 Holes Bay, 16 Brownsea, 19 Lytchett Bay 5 Swineham

Forster's Tern - 2nd winter still Shipstal Point

Arctic Skua - 1 Ferrybridge

Spoonbill - 77 Brownsea Island Lagoon

Cattle Egret - 1 on football pitch behind Portland Fire Station before flying north

Great White Egret - 1 Holes Bay, 1 Silverlake, 1 Arne RSPB

Osprey - 1 Middlebere

Honey Buzzard - 1 flew south over Southwell Portland

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.