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.
As we hit the mid-September point, the mix of autumn and winter across the country starts to merge….
Find out moreDespite the murky conditions today, there was still some good birding action to be had. Multiple Osprey were…
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