Dorset Bird Club Records

Great White Egret Ardea alba



2009 Hengistbury Head 1st June
2008 Portland Bill 23rd July
2008 Radipole Lake 17th May
2008 Burleston 22nd February
2008 Chesil Cove 16th February.
2007 Rodden Hive 8th October
2007 Lodmoor 24th August
2007 Hengistbury Head & Avon Valley 26th May
2006 Alderholt 14th July

2006 Lodmoor 24th April
2005 Hengistbury Head, 19th October.
2005 Abbotsbury, two, 27th August.
2005 Locality withheld, two adults, 27th August to 13th September
2005 King's Park, Bournemouth, 16th July.
2005 Little Sea, Studland, 14th April.
2004 Sturminster Marshall, 3rd to 4th January; same as 2003.also in Hampshire
2003 Abbotsbury, 20th October.
2003 Sturminster Marshall, intermittently, 16th August to 26th October, colour-ringed; also in Hampshire.
2003 The Fleet (Abbotsbury and Langton Herring), 26th to 29th June; presumed same, 4th August.
2003 Stanpit Marsh, 24th January.
2002 Radipole Lake, two, 27th to 28th July,
1999 Radipole Lake, 5th October, colour-ringed as a nestling, Lac du Grande Lieu, Loire Atlantique, France, 8th May 1999; same as Wiltshire, Worcestershire.
1999 Britford, intermittently, 3rd to 22nd September, photo.; colour-ringed as a nestling, Lac du Grande Lieu, Loire Atlantique, France, 8th May 1999; also in Dorset, Worcestershire.
1998 Arne, Stanpit Marsh and Radipole Lake, 2nd to 3rd February, photo.
1995 Littlesea, The Fleet, 5th February, video-recorded.
1993 Sutton Bingham Reservoir, 22nd to 29th October.
1993 Chesil Fleet, 17th to 22nd April; also in Devon.
1974 Lodmoor, 11th June; presumed same, Brownsea Island, 12th June; presumed same, Christchurch Harbour, Hampshire, 12th to 13th June