Having now spent a month in the harbour, it seems the Forster’s Tern is enjoying it’s time here having holidayed initially in Baiter then Poole Park, before settling on Brownsea for a while (why not?) and now it’s taking in the sights and scenes of Holes Bay having been here for several days in Holes Bay south. It will almost certainly head off some time in April, but it’s been great to have around, with the opportunity for birders to ‘bump’ into this mega rarity literally anywhere. There were more Osprey arrivals/transiting through today with an intruder Osprey visiting the harbour nest, plus an adult female was seen hunting in Middlebere this afternoon which then went and settled on the Middlebere Channel nest platform for 7 hours, eating her monster Sea Bass. Just outside the harbour the recent roaming White Stork was seen, this time over Corfe Mullen, seen heading west, so it could have been harbour bound? Off Middle Beach, Studland the sum plum Black-necked Grebe was still present as was the Common Scoter and 1 Great Northern Diver. Very small numbers of Swallow were moving north again.

Un-ringed adult female Osprey near RSPB Arne – Mark Wright

Un-ringed adult female Osprey near RSPB Arne, Middlebere – BoPH monitoring cam