Dorset Birds: Thursday 24th July 2025

Garganey - eclipsed drake Lodmoor

Nightjar - 1 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Whimbrel - 1 Holes Bay, 3 Brands Bay

Curlew - 18 Holes Bay, 59 Brands Bay

Back-tailed Godwit - 9 Holes Bay, 5 Lodmoor, 51 Brands Bay

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Abbotsbury Swannery

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Green Sandpiper - 1 Lodmoor

Redshank - 1 Silverlake, 97 Holes Bay, 34 Brands Bay, 81 Lytchett Bay

Wood Sandpiper - 1 still Lodmoor

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Bay

Greenshank - 13 Lytchett Bay

Little Tern - 1 west scrape Lodmoor

Cattle Egret - 1 Lodmoor

Great White Egret - 1 west lake Silverlake

Little Egret - 30 Holes Bay, 20 Swineham gravel pits

Red Kite - 1 over Maiden Castle

Bee-eater - 1 heard at Culverwell Portland

Sedge Warbler - 120 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Grasshopper Warbler - 19 ringed Piddle valley floodplain

Pied Flycatcher - 1 trapped and ringed Portland Bird Observatory

Dartford Warbler, near Dancing Ledge, © Bob Hammond

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).