The heatwave certainly continued today, but that didn’t curb any activity in the harbour. Pretty spectacular scenes from our Summer Safari Cruise this morning with the White-tailed Eagle pair continuing to be active in the Wareham Channel, using the gull breeding islands as a food source. The adult female G466 was first sat, ironically, on a no-landing sign on the RSPB Arne shoreline with the male G463 sat on a tree close by. They then took off and began hunting together over the gull islands, putting up a huge cloud of gulls, terns, cormorants and geese! They were unsuccessful on this occasion, but we had earlier seen male Osprey 022 catch a fish succesfully in the Wareham Channel. 1 Osprey was also sat in dead trees at Middlebere from Coombe Heath later this afternoon. Number of waders do seem to be increasing each day with early returning/passage c50 Curlew and c40 Black-tailed Godwit in the Wareham Channel. On the Brownsea Lagoon there were 3 Common Sandpiper, c20 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Greenshank and 4 Spoonbill. 2 Spotted Redshank were still in Lytchett Bay from Rock Lea viewpoint.

There’s been lots of great activity on our recent Summer Safaris and Sunset Safari Cruises with now being a great time to see the White-tailed Eagles taking advantage of the breeding gulls. There’s a few tickets left for the upcoming weeks if you’d like to join us, book here.

Female White-tailed Eagle G466 – from our Summer Safari Cruise this morning in the Wareham Channel, RSPB Arne Shoreline – Christopher Robinson