It was still Cattle Egret mania today with 21 behind Curlew Cottage at Swineham/Bestwall just outside Wareham. They can be quite elusive though and although seen together twice in two days, the flock can easily disappear as quickly as they appear. Checking the rest of the Frome Valley is always worth a shot, certainly at the Wareham bypass bridge, the Stoborough Causeway and from Holmebridge. At Holton Pools 2 Water Pipit were on the scrape but the huge high tides also saw 60+ Redshank out in front of the hide along with several Black-tailed Godwit, Teal and Wigeon. On Canford Heath 2 Firecrest were ringed out on the heath along with an excellent total of Greenfinches (63). Out in Studland Bay there were 3 Black-necked Grebe. We’ve also had the information back for the yellow-flagged Bar-tailed Godwit found during our WeBS count the other day. It was ringed as a 1^st winter female on the 26/08/18 at Klepp in SW Norway.

Ringed (Klepp SW Norway) and overwintering (Poole Harbour)  location of Bar-tailed Godwit seen during WeBS on Nov 4th