Dorset Birds: Friday 31st July 2026

Cattle Egret - 5 Stanpit Marsh

Great White Egret - 2 Lodmoor RSPB

Spoonbill - 17 Brownsea Lagoon

Osprey - 1 Christchurch Hbr

Little Ringed Plover - 1 past Hengistbury Hd.

Sanderling - 10 Hengistbury, 3 Brownsea Lagoon

Whimbrel - 9 Stanpit Marsh

Common Sandpiper - 7 Lytchett Fields, 4 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Long Island

Green Sandpiper 5 Lytchett Fields, 2 Middlebere

Spotted Redshank - 1 Lytchett Fields, 1 Middlebere

Greenshank - 11 Brownsea Lagoon, 10 Lytchett Fields

Cuckoo - 1 Shipstal Hill Arne

Whinchat - 1 Maiden Castle, 1 Hartland Moor

Wheatear - 4 Hengistbury Hd, 2 Stanpit Marsh, 1 Middlebere, 1, Stanpit Marsh, 1 Peveril Pt.

Pied Flycatcher - 1 fem/type Wick (Central path)

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.