With all the glorious weather recently, we were quite surprised that none of our Ospreys had returned during that period. We were even more surprised today that during a whole day of force 6 gales, one of our breeding pair suddenly landed on the nest! This evening at 18:30 our female Osprey ‘CJ7’ landed back which is great news and always a welcome relief. We just need to see how long it takes male 022 to come back now!
The strong winds made birding really difficult today, but did produce a juvenile White-tailed Eagle in Brands Bay, 3 Spoonbill on the Brownsea Lagoon, and this morning, (possibly predicting the forecast), the Forster’s Tern was found hunkered down on a salt marsh in Holes Bay south. This evening with the wind having died down quite a bit there were c250 Sand Martin at Swineham and 2 Bearded Tit were at Swineham Point.
Another breathtaking day across the harbour with the ‘Spring Effect’ in full force as migration begins to build…
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