Dorset Birds: Monday 2nd March 2026

Great Northern Diver - 3 Brand's Bay / Jerry's Point

Cattle Egret - 53 Worgret/Wareham Common

Glossy Ibis - 10 Wareham Common

Black-necked Grebe - 10 in Brand' Bay / Jerry's Point, 1 Longham Lake

Red Kite - 1 Longham Lake

White-tailed Eagle - 1 imm Lytchett Bay

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Bay

Greenshank - 3 Lytchett Fields RSPB

Forster's Tern - 1 again in Parkstone Bay

Mediterranean Gull - 163 Parkstone Bay + further 250-300 spread across the northern shore Poole Hbr.

Red-rumped Swallow - 1 North end Radipole RSPB

Fieldfare - 5 Hardy's Monument

Wheatear - 1 female Longham Lakes car park, Lodmoor RSPB, 1 Kimmeridge

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 social media, 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.