After a pretty exciting weekend it was back to a more typical Monday theme today with reduced reports, but the day wasn’t without interest. A Hobby was seen arriving in through the harbour entrance by a chain ferry staff member, and another was seen getting grief by gulls over Wareham. A couple of small parties of Swift were also seen passing over Wareham and 1 was over Poole Town Centre. Of course, the custom Red-spotted Bluethroat makes it on to the daily sightings page with it continuing to favour the eastern end of Swineham GP. The Springs first Spotted Flycatcher was in the Corfe River Valley, a Cuckoo was on Hartland Moor, the 3 Glossy Ibis were seen over Swineham this AM, but later found this afternoon in the Frome Valley below the Bog Lane SANG. There were still 500+ Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit in Holes Bay this morning, and 5 Whimbrel passed over Middlebere, with 1 also in Lytchett Bay this evening along with a Curlew Sandpiper again.

Freshly fledged juvenile Song Thrush – Middlebere