Dorset Birds: Monday April 8th 2024

Common Sandpiper - 2 Longham Lakes

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Middlebere

Little Gull - 2 Lodmoor

Yellow-legged Gull - 1 Lodmoor

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

Osprey - 1 unringed Middlebere Channel

Red Kite - 1 over Longham Lakes, 1 Winterbourne Zelston

Reed Warbler - 2 Longham Lakes

Ring Ouzel - male at Wick, Christchurch Harbour

Pied Flycatcher - 1 East Were Portland

Yesterday:

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Knowlton

Ring Ouzel, Hengistbury Head © Michael Gibbons

Woodchat Shrike, Cogden Beach (April 6th ) © Peter Coe

Woodlark, Morden Bog © Robert Fielding

Redshank, Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

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).