Dorset Birds: Tuesday 19th March 2024

Scaup - 1 1st winter female, Abbotsbury Swannery
Long-tailed Duck - 1 off Jerry's Point
Slavonian Grebe - 2 off Jerry's Point
Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lytchett Fields
Bar-tailed Godwit - 29 Brownsea Lagoon
Green Sandpiper - 1 Doddings Farm Cress Beds
Spotted Redshank - 1 French's Pool, Lytchett Fields
Great Northern Diver - 2 off Jerry's Point
Spoonbill - 4 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Brands Bay
Red Kite - 1 over Wild Woodbury
Skylark - 47 over fields at Wild Woodbury
Sand Martin - 10 over Charminster WM, Dorchester, several over Wareham Channel
Yellow-browed Warbler - 1 still Louds Mill SW, Dorchester
Firecrest - 4 Wild Woodbury
Siskin - c12 Winterborne Stickland

Egyptian Geese with young, Holme Lane GP © Colin Moyes

Short-eared Owl, North Dorset © Sarah Corbett

Siskin, Winterborne Stickland © Will Bown

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

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