With a strengthening wind building and some light drizzle, it was quite a contrast today compared to the last week. The unsettled weather is delivering more waders each day though. In Lytchett Bay this morning the first freshly arrived juvenile Greenshank of the autumn pitched down, with a mix of juvenile and adult Common Redshank. Common Sandpipers also appearing in more numbers with 2 at Swineham, 1 in Lytchett Bay and 3 on the Brownsea sea wall. Also at Swineham on the stilt Pools were a mixed flock of both Common and Little Ringed Plover, along with a summer plumaged Cattle Egret. On the Brownsea Lagoon last night c20 newly arrived summer plumaged Dunlin were feeding in amongst the many hundreds of newly fledged Common and Sandwich Tern. Male Osprey 022 was on fire yesterday, not only catching 2 different fish within 15 minutes of one another during our Sunset Safari Cruise last, but also managing to catch 2 small ‘school Bass’ at once, then skilfully delivering them to the nest as if arriving on waterskis! There was also another osprey in Lytchett Bay for most of the day, presumably the unidentified tatty individual from a few days ago. Both adult White-tailed Eagles were hunting out in the Wareham Channel on and off during the day, there were 4 Spoonbill on the Brownsea Lagoon, a Cuckoo was at Swineham and the Swineham Marsh Harrier pair carried out several food passes to their TWO freshly fledged young.

Male Osprey 022 delivering 2 fish at once yesterday afternoon