Another stunning Sunset Safari Cruise this evening with male Osprey 022 hunting in the Wareham Channel and a gorgeous Marsh Harrier flyby in the evening light! Other highlights included a summer plumage Spotted Redshank on the mudflats, 2 Bearded Tit, and a flock of 50 Sand Martin surrounding the boat in the River Frome, plus the cacophony of Sandwich and Common Terns on the Brownsea Lagoon to end the trip. Elsewhere Yellowhammer, Woodlark and Cuckoo were all recorded at Morden Bog, with the latter also heard at Arne and Stoborough Heath: possibly birds making one last stopover in the UK on their migrations south to sub-Saharan Africa!

Marsh Harrier – Wareham Channel, Sunset Safari Cruise – John Thorpe