Dorset Birds: Friday 29th November 2024

Goldeneye - 1 Holes Bay (South)
Goosander - 16 Silverlake including 1 male
Slavonian Grebe - 1 Studland Bay from Middle Beach
Black-necked Grebe - 5 Studland Bay from Middle Beach
Green Sandpiper - 1 Woodsford
Sanderling - 11 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 4 Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Holes Bay
Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle Valley floods
Arctic Skua - 1 again in Poole Harbour around Quay and Baiter
Red-throated Diver - 6 Peveril Point, 1 Studland Bay from Middle Beach
Great Northern Diver - 2 Jerry's Point, 1 Studland Bay from Middle Beach, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Peveril Point, 1 past Abbotsbury Beach
Spoonbill - 15 Holes Bay, 9 Arne RSPB
Cattle Egret - 13 roosted this evening at Hengistbury, 1 Buckland Ripers
Short-eared Owl - 1 Middlebere
Hen Harrier - 1 male at Middlebere
Red Kite - 2 over Minterne Parva

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.