After yesterdays colourful excitement of 10 European Bee-eater flying over Longfleet, Poole just before sunset, there were high hopes they, or some more may be found today somewhere in the harbour. Well, it didn’t take too long into the day before 18 were seen heading out over Rock Lea View at Lytchett Bay at 8am which were likely to have been part of the same group seen the night before. Sadly they didn’t hang around and soon disappeared off west towards Holton Lee not to be seen again……yet!

The day could have become even more interesting for Lytchett Bay when this evening a mystery small wader appeared on Lytchett Fields which initially looked like a Little Stint, but after several minutes of observation seemed long and pale legged, as well as showing potential interesting features which were possibly consistent with  Long-toed Stint. Due to the enormity of this potential mega, caution was given to the ID and multiple features were observed and various reference material used. Looking at videos and photos taken the original ID of Little Stint is the current general consensus, but there may be more discussion and detail to look at. Many thanks for Mark Constantine (Sound Approach), Paul Harvey and Ian Lewington for input.

Elsewhere our 3rd Osprey chick of the season hatched at 10am, and one of the new local males 5H6 was touring around Middlebere, the Wareham Channel and also visited the nest site at Carey.