A cracking Summer Safari Cruise for us this morning, with the top highlight being an adult male Common Scoter in the Wareham Channel seen sat on the water before flying south. We also saw 5 Osprey throughout the trip, including 1 successfully catching a fish in Arne Bay 5 mins after leaving the quay and another catching a fish in the Wareham Channel. 1 adult White-tailed Eagle was also present in the channel flying along the Arne shoreline whilst getting mobbed by Herring Gulls and an Osprey. On the low tide, c560 Black-tailed Godwit were spooked by 1 juvenile Peregrine, and 2 distant Marsh Harrier flew over the Arne shoreline. The juv Peregrine was terrorising everything in sight, from Cormorants to Black-headed Gulls, unsuccessfully! On the Brownsea Lagoon were c100 Dunlin, c1o Common Ringed Plover, 6 Greenshank, c120 Redshank, 6 Avocet, 18 Spoonbill, and 1 Common Sandpiper flying along the lagoon wall. Other sightings today featured 1 Honey Buzzard flying over Carey heading north, and 1 Wood Sandpiper and 1 Green Sandpiper on Sunnyside Scrape. This afternoon, 2 Osprey were present in Lytchett Bay, including 1 successfully catching a fish.

Ad Male Common Scoter – @wildlifedan1.bsky.social – Wareham Channel