There’s no doubt that this early/mid part of August provides the best chance to see multiple Osprey around the harbour, with an incredible total of 7 seen together over Middlebere this morning around 11am. We’ve also been getting some great footage from our monitoring cameras on nest platforms elsewhere, highlighting that next spring is shaping up to be a fascinating evolution of the project with a couple of our 2-year old males (5H6 and 5R1) seen taking sticks to a couple of different nest platforms, along with an un-ringed adult female too. It’s anyones guess as to how next spring will pan out, but we’ll certainly have front row seats. This evening there were 18 Spoonbill on the Brownsea Lagoon, along with 4 Greenshank, 9 Avocet, 12 Turnstone c100 Black-tailed Godwit, c30 Redshank and 8 Ringed Plover. There was also a good smattering of common migrants across the southern harbour heathlands this morning including 3 Common Redstart, 30+ Willow Warbler, 20+ Common Whitethroat, 10+ Spotted Flycatcher, plus a Whinchat near Godlingston along with 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler and and 3 Spotted Flycatcher. A White-tailed Eagle flew over Middlebere. At Lytchett Fields / Bay today there were 20 Greenshank, 7 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 3 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover, 17 Black-tailed Godwit & 12 Lapwing.

Female Osprey CJ7 on dead tree cam – edge of Wareham Channel