Dorset Birds: Sunday 4th May 2025

Cuckoo - 1 nr. Martin Down, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Grey Plover - 1 Stanpit
Whimbrel - 7 Holes Bay, 5 Ferrybridge, 1 Stanpit, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Bar-tailed Godwit - 2 Ferrybridge
Common Sandpiper - 1 Stanpit, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Green Sandpiper - 1 Solent Meads Car Park
Little Gull - 1 2cy Lytchett Bay
Puffin - 2 distant from Dancing Ledge
Red Kite - 2 Bridport, 1 Merley, 1 Bloxworth Woods
Marsh Tit - 1 High Woods, east of Badbury Rings
Hobby - 1 in off sea at Portland Bill
Firecrest - 3 Bloxworth Woods
Spotted Flycatcher - 3 Portland Castle
Nightingale - 2 Alner's Gorse
Wheatear - 1 Stanpit
Tree Pipit - 1 over The Hump, Portland

Common Tern, Arne RSPB © Mick Church

Little Gull, Lytchett Bay © Peter John Corbin

Hooded Crow, Portland © Phil Cheeseman

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).