Dorset Birds: Sunday 9th August 2026

Quail - 1 Tarrant Rushton Airfield

Common Scoter - 1 male Arne RSPB Saline Lagoon

Whimbrel - 4 Brands Bay, 1 Ferrybridge, 1 Arne RSPB

Knot - 5 Stanpit Bight, 1 Ferrybridge

Wood Sandpiper - 1 Sunnyside Farm scrape

Little Gull - 1 Poole Harbour entrance

Spoonbill - 6 Middlebere Channel

Osprey - 10+ Poole Harbour

Red Kite - 1 Athelhampton

Garden warbler - 1 Hatch Pond Poole

Pied Flycatcher - 1 Kimmeridge

Dipper - 1 River Lim Lyme Regis

Whinchat - 1 trapped & ringed at Portland Bill Obs

Serin - 1 Portland Bill Obs garden

Cirl Bunting - 1 Durlston CP

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.