Dorset Birds: Tuesday 23rd July 2024

Spoonbill - 2 Middlebere

White-tailed Eagle - 2 Wareham Channel

Whimbrel - 14 Brand's Bay, 2 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 1 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 5 Middlebere

Greenshank - 11 Lytchett Bay from RLVP.

Swallow/Sand martin - c100 Hengistbury HHC.

Lapwing - Stanpit Marsh Clinton Whale

Whimbrel - 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.