There have been 2 Spoonbill in the harbour for a few weeks now but they’ve been quite hard to try and pin down. Today they spent most the day on the Brownsea Lagoon which is typical behaviour for this time of year with migrant birds normally beginning to arrive from breeding grounds in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany and Denmark by the end of July, with numbers building all the way through August, September and into October. An un-ringed Osprey was out hunting over the Wareham Channel at midday but wasn’t seen to feed anywhere. At Lytchett Fields the wader numbers just keep on growing with now 17 Green Sandpiper, 12 Little Ringed Plover still, 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Grey Plover and the first Whimbrel of the autumn.