Rough-legged Buzzard - Buteo lagopus
A
very rare winter visitor and passage migrant
Mansel-Pleydell 1888 listed 8
records of 9 birds all but one either shot or obtained.
Blathwayt 1945 listed
4 a single killed near Dorchester 20th April 1918 and one west of Lyme Regis on
23rd December 1938.
2005 Lytchett Bay 16th October
2004 Wareham Forest
7th March
2002 Christchurch Hbr. 25th March
1997 Barnsfield Heath 22nd April
1993
Ibberton 22nd March
1982 Arne 25th April presumed same Winspit 10th October
and 1st November.
1979 Corfe Castle 12th and 14th February
1978 Sandford
imm picked up 4th December was fed then released 9th December near Arne where
it was seen 11th and 13th December at Studland 17th December at Durlston 19th-20th
December and Moreton on 28th December.
1974 Portland Bill 22nd October
1969
Little Bredy 26th January
1968 West Holme 10th and 12th January pos. same East
Stoke 12th-13th April.
1967 Boveridge near Cranborne late October - 4th November
1967 Worgret near Wareham 11th and 13th May
1961 Blandford late October
- 4th November