Dorset Birds: Thursday 13th March 2025

Lesser Scaup - 1 male Longham Lakes

Long-tailed Duck - 1 female off Jerry's Pt.

Hen Harrier - 2 male Coward's Marsh

Purple Sandpiper - 9 Avon Beach Chrichurch

Black Redstart - 1 Reap Lane

Northern Wheatear - 2 Ferrybridge, 1 Studland Heath

Siberian Chiffchaff - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Dark-bellied Brent Geese - Stanpit Marsh © Clinton Whale

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.