With the weather due to turn tomorrow and over the weekend, there feels like a bit of hope a rare or scarce trans-Atlantic wader or passerine could appear somewhere, but where and what is anyones guess. Poole Harbour has never logged a North American warbler species and in fact has only ever logged 1 North American passerine, which was an American Robin in 1966. So they don’t come around too often, but Pectoral Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Stilt and Semipalmated Sandpiper are all (semi) recent finds, and although it feels it’s getting a bit late for a rare wader to appear we’ll never give up hope!

In the mean time 4 Curlew Sandpiper in Middlebere will have to suffice, plus there were 8 Cattle Egret at Holmebridge, a Merlin was at Hartland, 40+ Spoonbill were ion the Brownsea Lagoon, 1 Little Stint was on Lytchett Fields and the autumns first Redwing was sound recorded over Oakdale last night, heralding the start of the final phase of autumn migration.