Dorset Birds: Monday 7th April 2025

Eider - 2 adult in Bramble Bush Bay

Little Ringed Plover - Stilt Pool Swineham

Green Sandpiper - 1 Swineham

Arctic Skua - 2 dark phased from Portland Bill

Red-throated Diver - 5 from Portland Bill

Black-throated Diver - 2 from Portland Bill

Osprey - 1 over Broadwey, 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Red Kite - 1 Lower Piddle Floods

Black Kite - 1 probable over Hartland Moor

Hoopoe - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1in paddocks south of Watery Lane Portland

Merlin - 1 along Middlebere track

Subalpine Warbler - 1 still in hedge c.300m north of West Weymouth Police station

Whitethroat - 1 Lytchett Bay, 1 Long Field Hengistbury Head, 1 Abbotsbury

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Stunted Oaks Hengistbury Head

Black Redstart - 5 Portland, 1 fem type Ferrybridge

Redstart - 1 Ahtree Meadows Stanpit, 1 Kimmeridge

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.

DORSET BIRD REPORT 2023

The Dorset Bird Report 2023, produced by Dorset Bird Club, is now available for purchase by non-members via the DBC website (click on the report cover image below). Featuring a review of the year, a comprehensive systematic list of all species recorded in 2023, rarity finder accounts including the first Moltoni's Warbler and Isabelline Wheatear for Dorset, articles on Baltic Gull, the Alpine Swift influx, Cory's and Great Shearwaters, and the return of the Cirl Bunting. Illustrated throughout with images taken by Dorset's leading photographers. £16 (+ £3 shipping).