The month is getting off to a good start for Osprey with 3 circling high over the Wareham Channel, prompting our resident male 022 to go into full display mode. We’re not sure who the new bird was? A Poole translocated bird? An early migrant? A wandering two year old from elsewhere? Who knows, but it’s a great start to the osprey season with plenty more hopefully still to come. A fantastic ringing session was held at Lytchett Heath, highlight just how many migrarts are already on the move with 12 Grasshopper Warbler ringed along with 94 Sedge Warbler, 3 Garden Warbler and 12 Willow Warbler. Up on Ballard the first Wheatear of the autumn was present and at Swineham 1 Osprey sent up c200 Black-tailed Godwit & 30 Lapwing out in the Wareham Channel and there were 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Hobby, plenty of Cettis & Reed Warbler, 210 Canada Geese, 3 Egyptian Geese + 7 young and 2 Yellow-legged Gulls. In Holes Bay there were 4 Common Sandpiper and in Brands Bay 3 Whimbrel and another Common Sandpiper. Arne and Middlebere are still producing the goods with the Great White Egret seen again in Middlebere, the Cuckoo was posing nicely again on the Coombe Heath sign post and there were 3 Spotted Redshank in Middlebere.

Grasshopper Warbler – Lytchett Heath