Today the first Rutland Osprey arrived, a female known as ‘025’, signalling the start of the 2026 Osprey season. We’ve received lots of questions about when our Osprey camera will go live and we’re glad to say it will be this week. We had originally planned for it to go live this weekend, but frustratingly the storm on Thursday night last week damaged our microphone, so we had to climb the tree this weekend to fix it. Thankfully all went well and we’ve been testing it over the last 24 hours and it all looks and sounds good to go. We’ll post the link on all our social channels and on here once we go live.

Today, the Forster’s Tern was on mooring buoys off Brownsea and also visited the lagoon a few times. The 3 remaining Glossy Ibis were on the Wareham Common again, 4 Sand Martin were over Swineham GP, the adult Little Gull was still at Lytchett Bay, Spotted Redshanks were in Lytchett Bay and Holes Bay and a Northern Wheatear was at Greenlands Farm. The Icelandic black-tailed Godwit totals are still good, with lots in fine breeding colours, with 1676 in Holes Bay and 1000+ on the Brownsea Lagoon.

Climbing the osprey nest tree this weekend to fix and prep the camera for launch this week