Dorset Birds: Sunday 16th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 Longham Lakes

Glossy Ibis - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery (Over meadow Pool)

Cattle Egret - 24 over Priory Marsh, 3 Affpuddle

Spoonbill - 3 Brownsea Is, 2 Lytchett Bay RSPB (RLVP)

Red Kite - 4 over Iwerne Minster

Little Ringed Plover - 1 Dorchester Water Meadow

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Pomarine Skua - 2 dark morph Lyme Regis (off Marine Parade)

White Wagtail - 1 Dorchester Water Meadow

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.