Dorset Birds: Wednesday 9th April 2025

Pink-footed Goose - 1 still with Greylags at Swineham Point

Lesser Scaup - 1st winter drake still on south lake of Longham Lakes

Puffin - 2 Dancing Ledge

Little Ringed Plover - 3 Frome Valley

Black-tailed Godwit - 638 Holes Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 mouth of River Frome

Spoonbill - 3 off Shipstal Point

Osprey - 2 Middlebere

Red Kite - 3 Swyre Head, 1 over Langton Matravers

White-tailed Eagle - G466 Wareham Channel, 1 Swyre Head

Hoopoe - 1 flew over Lanehouse Weymouth, 1 Verne Citadel Portland

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Dorchester Water Meadows

Subalpine Warbler - female still in hedge c.300m north of west Weymouth Police station

Ring Ouzel - 1 Verne Common

Black Redstart - male Reap Lane Portland

Yesterday:

Cuckoo calling at Melcombe Bingham

Whitethroat, Hengistbury Head © 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.

DORSET BIRD REPORT 2023

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