Dorset Birds: Saturday 3rd May 2025

Goosander - 1 drake Silverlake

Great Northern Diver - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Manx Shearwater - 200 off Portland Bill

Great White Egret - 1 Lytchett Bay p.m, 1 Silverlake

Honey Buzzard - 1 over Purwell, 1 over Ferrybridge

Red Kite - 10 over Moordown, 6 over Bakers Arms, 4 over Lytchett Way Upton, 4 over Ballard Down, 3 over Central Poole Harbour.

Hobby - 2 Swineham Pt, 2 Hydes Heath

Little Stint - 1 Ferrybridge

Whimbrel - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Spotted Redshank - 1 in the Wareham Channel

Greenshank 2 Brownsea Is.

Pomarine Skua - 1 past Portland Bill

Arctic Shua - 4 Portland Bill

Little Gull - 1 Bramble Bush Bay, 1 first summer Brownsea Is.

Swift - 60 Portland Bill, 2 St. Aldhelm's Hd.

Spotted Flycatcher - 2 St. Aldhelm's Hd.

Hooded Crow - 1 Reap Lane Portland

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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