The start of July and some great news that 2 Avocet chicks have appeared on the Brownsea Lagoon. Numbers of Avocet had dropped from 14 in the last few weeks to just these 2 and hopes were running out for any breeding attempts this year as chicks normally appear in May or June. Great news that two have hatched and the Dorset Wildlife Trust team will keep watching over the coming weeks to see how they get on. There were also 6 Spoonbill on the Lagoon.

The start of July is bringing more wader passage with a summer plumage Spotted Redshank in Lytchett Bay on French’s Field as well as 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank and 12 Bar-tailed Godwit. In the Wareham Channel there’s a growing flock of c75 Curlew and 1 Osprey was hunting here. On Arne Moors there were 4 Little Ringed Plover. Some late news as well of a Turtle Dove in Sandford in a private garden on 30th June but no longer present.

Female Goshawk – Wareham Channel yesterday – Annabel Sharpe