As things continue to cool down, it was once again another good day for passage waders with numbers building by the day. Following yesterdays Spotted Redshank at Middlebere, another (or possibly the same) was at Lytchett Fields this morning along with 68 Black-tailed Godwit, 29 Lapwing, 24 Common Redshank, 6 Green Sandpiper and 3 Greenshank. Brownsea was also observed today and logged 23 Common Redshank, single Common Sandpiper on the lagoon and another at Seymers (Brownsea north shore), 34 Little Egret and 2 Spoonbill, but only 2 Avocet. In Middlebere this evening Scottish female Osprey 6J8 was on the nest platform briefly and during the day there were sightings of White-tailed Eagle in the Wareham Channel. The adult Yellow-legged Gull was in Middlebere this evening.
A strange grey sky welcomed us in today, and an even stranger wet substance fell from the cloud…
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