After yesterdays battering, it was a day of excitement today rather than a day of extreme weather! As soon as the wind eased last night we saw the return of our breeding female Osprey CJ7. The question was, how long would she have to wait for her mate 022? The answer was not very long…..12 hours in fact. No sooner had the sun risen this morning when male Osprey 022 arrived at the nest with a huge Bass, having been seen catching the fish in the mouth of the River Piddle as he made his way back to the nest, touching down at 06:40. Not only did he return, we also had our first intruding Osprey visit this afternoon, which neither CJ7 or 022 seemed to bothered about, and it seems that bird was later seen at Morden Bog too. Around lunchtime 2 Common Crane were seen heading in high from the east, and were seen circling high above RSPB Arne Moors before disappearing off north, whilst at the same time a White-tailed Eagle was hunting on the Moors, and flushed 2 Spoonbill, whilst 2 Red Kite and a Goshawk had a fight high over head! There was obviously a mini fall this AM too with 4 Willow Warbler at the PCW Drain and 2 more at Hatch Pond. Some tardy ‘winter’ species of note were singles of both Fieldfare and Lesser Redpoll at Carey Secret Garden. At Swineham the Little Ringed Plover count was 5, plus there were singles of Swallows logged at Swineham, Sunnyside and Middlebere and on Brownsea an adult Yellow-legged Gull was on the Brownsea Lagoon.

Female Osprey CJ7 (left) and male 022 (right) re-bonding after 7 months apart