Well, what we lack in Ospreys currently we certainly make up for in White-tailed Eagles, with FOUR present (briefly) today with three new ones passing through during the afternoon, and one even attempting to catch a fish in Brands Bay, and the relatively settled female G801 still hanging about out in the Wareham Channel. Yesterdays Yellow Wagtail at Swineham, which caused some debate about it’s ID was present again this evening and with better photographs was able to determine that it was indeed a standard flavisima and not anything scarcer sadly. There was also a Little Ringed Plover on the Swineham scrape and 3 Little Ringed Plover at Lytchett Fields. Red Kites passed over the Piddle Valley, Stoborough and Studland and there were 4 Cattle Egret in fields on the edge of the Frome Valley below Worgret Manor. There was a tardy male Merlin also at Lytchett Fields the Peregrine pair on Barclays seemed to do a nest shift, suggesting they’re now incubating eggs which is great news. Finally there were 3 Spoonbill still on Shipstal Point during the high tide.

Back of the camera image of the early Yellow Wagtail at Swineham – Peter Moore