The juvenile Great Northern Diver was still in residence in Poole Park with 6 Goldeneye and 4 Red-breasted Merganser. There were 16 Spoonbill on Shipstal Point with 2 still on Lytchett Fields RSPB. 2 Black-necked Grebe were off Hamworthy Park with 3 off Middle Beach, 4 in Shell Bay and 2 in Bramble Bush Bay where the Velvet Scoter was still with 2 Common Scoter and a Black-throated Diver. Mediterranean Gull are starting to reappear in the harbour with several seen in Ower Bay and then moving west through the harbour in the evening.
Summer is back, for now, and with it a massive push of hirundines, mainly House Martin. There were…
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