Dorset Birds: Thursday 4th September 2025

Pintail - 1 Holes Bay

Goosander - 4 Silverlake

Swift - 2 Broadwey, 1 Norden Farm

Knot - 4 Ferrybridge, 4 Brownsea Lagoon DWT, 3 Holes Bay

Grey Phalarope - 2 off Cogden Beach, 1 off Portland Bill, 1 Chesil Cove

Green Sandpiper - 5 Warmwell Cress Beds

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Greenshank 29 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Ferrybridge

Balearic Shearwater - 77 West past Durlston CP

Glossy Ibis - 1 Arne Moor, 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Dorchester Bluebridge footpath

Spoonbill - 27 Brownsea lagoon DWT

Cattle Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Great White Egret - 1 Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Silverlake

Osprey - 5 Wareham Channel, 2 Lytchett Bay, 1 Holes Bay, 1 Radipole Lake RSPB

Hobby - 1 Newton Heath / cottage

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Durlston CP, 1 Wareham Forest

Glossy ibis - Lodmoor RSPB
© 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).