After yesterdays Osprey madness, things were a bit calmer today, but we still saw some interesting observations with 3-year old male Osprey ‘5H3’ visiting several harbour platforms during the course of the day. Since our project began we’ve been waiting for ‘new’ male Ospreys to start looking to to set up territory within the area and todays sightings certainly suggest that both 5H3 and 5R0 are quite keen to hang around. Sadly, there are currently no females in the area but that could change in the next week.

The Red-spotted Bluethroat was still at Swineham, a Spoonbill was on the Brownsea Lagoon, a Spotted Redshank was was in Lytchett Bay and once again there was a good push of Swallow, Sand Martin and a few Swift moving through. An evening sea watch off Ballard Down produced 100+ Manx Shearwater, 20+ Gannet, 6 Fulmar, a few passage flocks of Whimbrel and Bar-tailed Godwit and 2 Lesser Whitethroat were in scrub on the way out. On Wareham Common the 3 Glossy Ibis were feeding this morning, and just north of the railway bridge there was a Garden Warbler and Lesser Whitethroat.

2-year old male Osprey 5R0 flying over Middlebere this AM – Mark Wright

3-year old male Osprey 5H3 visiting different harbour platforms today

3-year old male Osprey 5H3 visiting different harbour platforms today