Dorset Birds: Tuesday 29th April 2025

Barnacle Goose - 2 nr Woodsford.
Cuckoo - 1 Butterstreet Cove, 1 Greenlands Farm, 1 Morden Bog, 1 Rempstone.
Crane - 1 SW over Dorchester.
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit.
Ruff - 8 Lodmoor.
Common Sandpiper - 3 Kimmeridge, 2 Hengistbury Head.
Greenshank - 1 Stanpit, 1 Woodsford.
Whimbrel - 18 Kimmeridge, 14 Brands Bay, 3 Cogden, 2 Lodmoor, 1 Stanpit.
Great Skua - 1 Portland Bill.
Arctic Skua - 1 E past Kimmeridge, 1 Portland Bill.
Red-throated Diver - 1 past Hengistbury, 1 Portland Bill.
Manx Shearwater - 14 Portland Bill, 1 E past Kimmeridge.
White Stork - 1 N over Southwell.
Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor.
Spoonbill - 1 Lodmoor, 1 Lytchett Bay.
Osprey - 1 N over Lodmoor.
Red Kite - c12 over Lytchett Matravers, 11 over Poole, 1 Cogden, 1 Eype.
Tree Pipit – 4 Morden Bog.
Yellow Wagtail - 3 Stanpit.
Redstart - 2 Hengistbury West Field.
Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Morden Bog.
Firecrest - 1 Durlston CP.

Reed Warbler, Stour Valley LNR © Robert Fielding

RARE BREEDING BIRDS

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