Dorset Birds: Sunday 9th November 2025

Pink footed Goose - 1 Longham Lakes

Black necked Grebe - 1 Longham Lakes

Ruff - 1 Lower Piddle flood fields Swineham

Curlew Sandpiper - 1 Lytchett Bay

Purple Sandpiper - 3 Sandspit Groynes Hegisbury Head

Spotted Redshank - 2 Lower Piddle flood fields Swineham

Yellow-legged Gull - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Abbotsbury Swannery closed for winter

Glossy Ibis - 1 Christchurch Harbour

Spoonbill - 10 Shipstal Point Arne RSPB

Cattle Egret - c50 Keysworth Ware Channel, 41 Christchurch Harbour, 25 Holmebridge

Great White Egret - 8 Longham Lakes, 1 Wareham Common

Hen Harrier - 1 over Crown Estate field Portland Bill, 1 in off the sea Hengisbury Head

Red Kite - 2 Lower Piddle flood fields Swineham

White tailed Eagle - 3 off Chapmans Pool, 2 Lower Piddle flood fields Swineham

Swallow - 1 Holmebridge

Yellow-browed Warbler - 2 Private gardens Wakeham

Pallas's Warbler - 1 Perveril Point copse, 1 Durlston CP, 1 trapped & ringed at Crown Estate field Portland Bill

Redwing - 48 Watton Hill Bridport

Black Redstart - 1 West Bay

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).