Dorset Birds: Friday 7th June 2024

Bar tailed Godwit - 3 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Knot - 1 Brownsea Island Lagoon DWT

Osprey - 1 Standpit Marsh

Common Whitethroat - 12 Bradbury Rings

Corn Bunting - 3 Bradbury Rings

Yesterday: 3 Manx Shearwater and 2 Puffin off Portland Bill

Osprey - Stanpit Marsh © Scott Usher

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.