Dorset Birds: Friday 16th August 2024

Goosander - 13 redheads at Silverlake this evening on West Lake
Nightjar - 1 trapped & ringed at Longham Lakes early morning
Grey Plover - 4 Brownsea Island, 1 Brand's Bay
Golden Plover - 1 Brand's Bay
Sanderling - 13 Brownsea Island
Whimbrel - 2 Brand's Bay
Common Sandpiper - 1 Brownsea Island
Wood Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor RSPB on West Scrape
Greenshank - 8 Brownsea Island, 4 Brand's Bay
Little Gull - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery briefly this evening
Arctic Skua - 2 Portland Bill
Sooty Shearwater - 1 Portland Bill
Manx Shearwater - 5000 past Portland Bill before 8am
Balearic Shearwater - 200 past Portland Bill before 8am, 2 Durlston CP
Spoonbill - 20 Brownsea Island
Hobby - 2 Arne RSPB
Merlin - 1 Portland Bill
Whinchat - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Yesterday : Sooty Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill and 1 west past the Cobb at Lyme Regis

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.