Although things started settled, the wind built pretty rapidly during the course of the early morning. A few small groups of Redwing were moving with 3 ringed in the Lower Piddle Valley. At dawn 4 Eider were in Shell Bay but soon moved off east. Also off Studland was a Black-throated Diver off South Beach with 2 Common Scoter and a dozen Brent Geese. The Dorset White-tailed Eagle chick was seen for the first time in the harbour where it briefly settled in fields close to Middlebere this morning. In the Carey housing estate 2 Black Redstart we’re on house roofs.

Juv White-tailed Eagle G834 – Middlebere – Sam Ryde