Dorset Birds: Saturday 28th September 2024

Black-necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes

Golden Plover - 27 Lodmoor

Grey Plover - 2 Brands Bay

Black-tailed Godwit - 71 Brands Bay

Spotted Redshank - 3 Coombe Heath, Arne RSPB, 1 Lytchett Bay, 4 Shipstal

Balearic Shearwater - 40 past Portland Bill

Spoonbill - 1 over Christchurch Harbour

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor, 2 Wick Water Meadows

Great White Egret - 3 Lodmoor, 1 Middlebere

White-tailed Eagle - 1 over Cerne Abbas, 2 Shipstal

Short-eared Owl - 1 Portland Bill

Hobby - 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Chiffchaff - 132 ringed at Lytchett Heath and 143 at Carey's Secret Garden

Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Godlingston Hill

Siberian Lesser Whitethroat - 1 trapped at Portland Bird Observatory

Whinchat - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Longham Lakes, 1 Godlingston Hill, 1 St Aldhelm's Head

Wheatear - 2 Maiden Castle, 1 Fancy's Farm Portland, 2 St Aldhelm's Head, 15 Stanpit

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.