Dorset Birds: Friday 30th August 2024

Garganey - 1 Hengistbury Head

Avocet - 34 Brownsea

Bar-tailed Godwit - 3 Brownsea

Knot - 2 Brownsea

Sanderling - 8 Brownsea

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Balearic Shearwater - 2 past West Bexington

White Stork - 1 Corfe Castle

Spoonbill - 29 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 1 Hengistbury Head`, 10 Poole Harbour

Wryneck - 1 Knowle Hill, 1 dead in Spetisbury garden

Hobby - 1 Longham Lakes

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 Slepe Heath, 2 Longham Lakes

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Culverwell, Portland

Redstart - 1 Maiden Castle

Whinchat - 1 Winterbourne Herringston

Wheatear - 1 Maiden castle, 1 Bind Barrow Hill Burton Bradstock, 3 Baiter

Yellow Wagtail - 18 Bind Barrow Hill Burton Bradstock

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.