Dorset Birds: Wednesday 10th September 2025

Nightjar - 1 trapped & ringed Carey Estate
Whimbrel - 1 Brownsea Lagoon
Wood Sandpiper - 1 on grassland this morning at West Bay but flushed by dog
Spotted Redshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB
Greenshank -15 Brownsea Lagoon
Knot - 1 Brownsea Island
Curlew Sandpiper - 10 Brownsea Lagoon
Little Stint - 2 Ferrybridge, 2 Brownsea Lagoon
Sabine's Gull - 1 juvenile flew west past Portland Bill
Caspian Gull - 1st winter at Portland Bill
Glossy Ibis - 4 again this afternoon in Frome Valley near Wareham by-pass
Spoonbill - 66 Brownsea Island
Osprey - 2 Abbotsbury Swannery, 1 over Sturminster Marshall, 1 Stanpit Marsh, 1 over Poole Park
Woodlark - 9+ Pentridge Down
House Martin - 200 Pentridge Down
Grasshopper Warbler - 3 trapped & ringed Carey Estate (plus 2 retraps), 1 Pentridge Down, 1 trapped & ringed at Wild Woodbury DWT
Firecrest - 1 Pentridge Down, 1 trapped & ringed Carey Estate
Redstart - 1 Pentridge Down
Whinchat - 1 Pentridge Down
Corn Bunting - 10 Pentridge Down

Grasshopper Warbler, Pentridge Down © Tom Coldwell

Water Rail, Stanpit Marsh © Robert Fielding

Osprey, Stanpit Marsh © Robert Fielding

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).