It turned out to actually be a glorious day today, despite the fear mongering of icy temperatures. However that could still come over the coming days. There was four different Osprey in the harbour this morning with CJ7 on her nest platform, the un-ringed female on the Middlebere nest platform and then a third was seen flying in from the Corfe direction heading towards the Wytch Channel and a fourth over Holes Bay area. CJ7 was only on her nest for an hour or so this morning and then not seen on there for the rest of the day. We did manage to locate her whereabouts for most of the afternoon as she was hiding out on another nest platform on the south side of the harbour eating a fish and then preening for several hours. This behaviour isn’t unexpected and in fact mirrors her behaviour last year when she spent a week touring the harbour, feeding up, getting her self in good breeding condition before finally settling on her nest platform on April 8th and nest building until later on in April. Whether she’ll lay eggs again (if failed to find a mate) on this nest platform again we’re not sure but with pretty much the whole of April still left to try and woo in a passing male then its going to be an exciting 3-4 weeks. Red Kite are definitely now on the move in small numbers with one taking a swipe at the un-ringed female Osprey at Middlebere and others seen over Studland, Hartland and Upton. There were 5 Little Ringed Plover at Lytchett Fields and 2 at Swineham where there were 2 Willow Warbler too. A nice sized group of a dozen House Martin came in over Lytchett Fields too.
Female Osprey CJ7 – Wareham Channel – Alison Copland
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