Todays strong winds, which did finally ease, provided some decent sea watching this morning which saw a good number of Pomarine Skua logged across southern England at various watch points and included 7 passing east out in Poole Bay this morning (15+ off Hengistbury this afternoon)! Along with the skua’s there was a large volume of terns in Poole Bay too, mostly Sandwich and Common Tern, but many were out in the haze, and some were moving east with purpose and could well have been Arctic Tern. Also 2 drake Eider headed east along with 4 Sanderling and small pulses of Swallow and Swift were seen coming in off the sea too. Both bachelor male Ospreys, 5H3 and 5R0 were in the harbour today, hanging around Middlebere and  Shipstal for periods during the course of the day. A drake Garganey was at Shell Bay, Studland in the marsh, viewable from the boardwalk and the 3 Glossy Ibis were seen again at Swineham GP. Greenshank and Whimbrel have been nicely spread between Lytchett Bay and Holes Bay the last couple of days, with decent flock sizes of passage birds.