Migration is really picking up now and up at our ringing site on Ballard Down a good pulse of Sedge Warbler moved through the area with 72 ringed along with a 7 Reed Warbler, 7 Grasshopper Warbler, 6 Garden Warbler, 5 Common Whitethroat, 5 Willow Warbler and a Tawny Owl! Another ringing site in the harbour (Lytchett Bay) was an equally busy warbler fest with 130 Sedge Warbler, 19 Reed Warbler, 4 Grasshopper Warbler, 7 Garden Warbler, 1 Common Whitethroat and 1 Dartford Warbler ringed. It was nice to see Holes Bay get some wader selection with 2 Common Sandpiper in the NE section and a fresh juvenile Kingfisher (possibly taking up residence for the winter now), and in the SE section 2 Curlew Sandpiper (an excellent Holes Bay record) also 1 Greenshank and just a single Dunlin. The Purple Heron again came into the Littlesea roost at 21:20. In Middlebere the 4 Spoonbill were at the end of the channel again and the 2 adult Osprey were still hanging around the Coombe Heath/Middlebere area.
Another sweltering day, with most activity once again logged before midday. A morning survey along the River Frome…
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