Much cooler now, but pleasantly mild and still good birds around the harbour. There were 2 Little Tern that were moving between the Wareham Channel and Middlebere during the course of the day. It was Osprey madness this morning with four different individuals moving around the west of the harbour, local breeding male 022, newly arrived males 5H3 and 5R0 and then newly arrived female 6J8. On Brownsea Sandwich Terns have been hatching for a couple of days and today 2 Common Tern chicks hatched, plus a Spoonbill was on the lagoon. There was another light passage of Red Kite today with 9 north over the harbour mouth, 6 over Studland and 6 over Swineham. This evening 2 Osprey came in off the sea at Kimmeridge within 20 mins of one another. Finally, we were thrilled to see the fourth egg hatch on the Carey Osprey nest this morning which is brilliant news, and a hat-trick as this is now the third year in a row.

Little Terns – RSPB Arne shoreline – Mark Wright

Female Osprey 6J8 – Middlebere – Alison Copland

All four Osprey chicks at Carey Secret Garden getting a feed