As a new heatwave creeps the scorched landscape is still seeing new arrivals try and find food, with grasshoppers and crickets surely making up a substantial diet of many migrant birds currently, as theres seemingly good numbers around in overgrown, rewilded landscapes. From our Summer Safari this AM there were 2 Osprey circling over Arne Bay for much of the morning, and male 022 caught a fish in the Wareham Channel. Male White-tailed Eagle G463 was also in the Wareham Channel sat out on Shag Looe Bar. On the Brownsea Lagoon there were 12 Spoonbill, c100 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Avocet, 100+ Dunlin, 8 Greenshank but only 2 each of Common Tern and Sandwich Tern. An Osprey was in Lytchett Bay this morning, 2 Little Ringed Plover were on the Stilt Pools at Swineham with 2 Yellow Wagtail.
It’s been a remarkable start to the ringing season already, which saw the 1000th newly ringed Sedge Warbler…
Find out moreA strange grey sky welcomed us in today, and an even stranger wet substance fell from the cloud…
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