Sightings Page


To Report your sighting to the County Recorder Click Here


Our Next Meeting

Saturday 25th July Fontmell Down (ST887186) 9.30am
Meet at National Trust Car Park on the Blandford to Melbury Abbas Road (Higher Shaftesbury Road)

FOLLOW ON MEETING APPROX 2PM Win Green (ST923205)
From the B3081 take the turning for the minor road to Ludwell Leader Phil Read and Ailsa McKey

Contact: Trevor Thorpe on 01202 849089 or at trevbirdman@aol.com



NIGHTJAR walks in July - see Meetings page


This Week in History

1st 1972 Little Bittern Radipole Lake
1st 1989 Red-rumped Swallow Portland
1st 2000 Sykes's Warbler Portland
1st 2001 Greenish Warbler Portland
2nd 1984 Wilson's Phalarope Radipole Lake
2nd 2005 Melodious Warbler Portland
3rd 1979 White-tailed Plover Abbotsbury
4th 1999 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Portland
5th 1982 Squacco Heron Radipole Lake
5th 1997 Melodious Warbler Portland


Please Note

It's not always possible for us to access the sightings / photographs sent into the Bird Club's e-mail address on a daily basis. However, all records are added to the DBC database for use in the annual Bird Report, and we will add all records of scarcer local birds to this page as soon as possible.

The Dorset Bird Club would like to thank all members and non-members who contribute photographs and sightings, which adds interest to this page.


July 2009

Friday 3rd July
Another hot day with a couple of raptors and a large count of Common Sandpipers the only birding interest.

Goldeneye - 1 Radipole
Common Scoter - 7 past Portland Bill

Manx Shearwater - 2 past Portland Bill
Balearic Shearwater - 1 past Portland Bill
Red Kite - 1 Melplash
Montagu's Harrier - 1 Wimborne
Puffin - 1 Durlston CP
Whimbrel - 2 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 21 Peveril Point

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Thursday 2nd July
Another quiet day but some late news for yesterday of an Osprey at Middlebere. Surprise bird of the day was a Goldeneye at Radipole.


Goldeneye at Radipole © Bagsy

Goldeneye - 1 Radipole
Common Scoter - 4 past Portland Bill

Whimbrel - 1 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 1 Christchurch Harbour

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Wednesday 1st July
A new month but no change with hot humid weather and relatively few birds.

Common Scoter - 17 past Portland Bill
Quail - 1 Maiden Castle

Manx Shearwater - 10 past Portland Bill
Bittern - 1 Radipole
Merlin - 1 Radipole
Whimbrel - 1 Portland Bill, 2 Christchurch Harbour
Common Sandpiper - 3 Christchurch Harbour, 1 Radipole
Greenshank - 1 Christchurch Harbour

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Help the Bird Atlas in Dorset

Help from birdwatchers is required for the Bird Atlas throughout Dorset in both the breeding season (April-July) and the winter (November-February). Your casual birdwatching records, together with evidence of breeding, will help build comprehensive species lists for each 10-km square. We also need help with Timed Tetrad Visits, especially in the west of the county and in the Isle of Purbeck area. Further details can be found on the Bird Atlas website www.birdatlas.net or contact Dawn Balmer by email dawn.balmer@bto.org

To purchase back copies of the
Dorset Bird Report

Limited numbers of the Dorset Bird Reports are available to non-members. For more information and to see availability of back copies. Click Here


DRP & BBRC Rarities Submission Forms
You can now download a rarities submission form either in word.doc format or acrobat pdf format by clicking on the hyperlinks below

Submission forms

Word Doc format

Pdf Format

If you have MS Word you can type into the document but the pdf version will need to be printed off unless you have a pdf editor.


Dorset Bird Club Database
Volunteers Wanted!!

We are looking for help to continue with the inputting of the historical bird records held in paper form by the club. We made a great start last winter with many of the key (‘red’ and ‘amber’) species now logged on to the Bird Club's Database for the years 1957 to 1993 (52,000+ individual records of 75 species).

There are still a lot of key species to input (before we even think about tackling the ‘green’ listed ones!)

If you are interested in helping, please contact Neil who would be happy to run you through what is involved before you commit yourself. [Use of a computer required.]

Neil Gartshore
Moor Edge, 2 Bere Road, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4DD

Tel: 01929 552560
to e-mail Click Here