Nice arrival of 7 juvenile Curlew Sandpiper on the Lagoon today. Also present were 1 Yellow Wagtail, 53 Spoonbill, c100 Ringed Plover, c100 Dunlin, 3 Sanderling, 2 Turnstone, 8 Knot and c25 Avocet. Small flocks of Yellow Wagtail were still at Sunnyside Scrape and Hartland Moor. Also on Hartland were 1 Redstart, 3 Wheatear and 1 Hobby. From our Osprey Cruises today we had at least 5 Osprey in the Wareham Channel along with, 3 adult Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Greenshank, 2 Marsh Harrier and 1 Hobby. The local White-tailed Eagle pair were also active here, hunting unsuccessfully around Giggers Island while being mobbed by the local Osprey.
Summer is back, for now, and with it a massive push of hirundines, mainly House Martin. There were…
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