Today the Hoopoe reappeared again in the allotments at Upton and showed on and off throughout the day but did disappear for lengthy periods. Just a polite reminder that the allotment owners request that birders please stay at the car park area and not wander off around the allotment plots trying to find the bird. There was quite a bit of Marsh Harrier activity in the Wareham Channel with some birds expressing territorial behaviour plus there was a juv male Hen Harrier bombing between the Slepe Heath/Wareham Channel area. At Lytchett Bay a single Spotted Redshank was on the fields with 105 Dunlin. Also 12 Swallow passed over late afternoon. There was a sighting of 4 possible Bearded Tit rising from the reed beds at Holes Bay NW. At dusk 3 Cattle Egret flew of Swineham where decent numbers of Teal, Wigeon and Shoveler were on the ‘Stilt Pools’.

Hoopoe – Slough Lane, Upton – Ian Ballam