A day of two halves, with heavy rain in the morning but then finally some bright sunshine in the afternoon. Holes Bay is still holding good numbers of the harbour’s waders and waterfowl with 19 Knot, 1000+ Black-tailed Godwit, 300+ Dunlin, 100 Avocet and c50 Pintail. The Snow Bunting was still showing well at Hamworthy Beach. 1 Spoonbill was in Lytchett Bay and 1 was feeding in the late evening at the Sunnyside Scrape. 1 Peregrine also came through carrying a large prey item at Sunnyside at dusk.
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