Today provided a real taste of early autumn migration with a suit of classic early autumn migrants arriving this AM, most of which were logged during a dawn ringing session at Carey Secret Garden. You know things are going to be good when in the first few net rounds you catch 13 Grasshopper Warbler! This was then followed by 40 Sedge Warbler, 13 Willow Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler and best of all, the seasons first Pied Flycatcher. Elsewhere an adult Goshawk was seen bombing out across Lytchett Fields where there were 5 Common Sandpiper, 6 Greenshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 9 Black-tailed Godwit , 30+ Redshank and 1 Curlew. Yesterday, from the ham Common view point one of the White-tailed Eagles was seen catching a fish out in the Wareham Channel and today, from the same spot, there were 3 separate sightings of an Osprey catching a fish, as well as an Osprey hassling a White-tailed Eagle. A Roseate Tern was seen again on the Brownsea Lagoon with 2 Spoonbill.

Pied Flycatcher – Carey Secret Garden – Matthew Scraggs

Grasshopper Warbler – Carey Secret Garden