What a glorious Easter Sunday. Sunny, mild and lots of chocolate! Looking at the forecast though, it may be the last warm day for some time as the predicted Arctic weather system starts venturing south as of Monday. Today there were a minimum of 3 Osprey in the harbour, with a bit of excitement when CJ7 lifted off her nest and started circling with another Osprey. We knew the visitor couldn’t have bee the un-ringed female that’s been present since last week as she was eating a fish on the Middlebere platform at the time. CJ7 this disappeared off for the day and there was even a sighting of 2 Osprey circling high together over the Wareham Channel at 1pm, but alas, CJ7 then returned to her nest…..alone around 2:30pm and no other sightings were logged. At least she’s going out and making the effort to meet new birds this year. Much of last spring was spent sat on the nest just hoping and waiting. There was a decent push of Swallows too with small groups of 5-10 pulsing through across different areas for much of the day. In the Wareham Channel there were literally thousands and thousands of gulls, mainly Black-headed Gulls but also good numbers Mediterranean Gulls too. There must have been an insect emergence of sorts with the gulls kettling in huge numbers for hours, circling high above the channel and never settling on the water or shoreline. At Swineham there were 2 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 2 Blackcap and 40 Sand Martin. There were also 7 Little Ringed Plover at Lytchett Fields and it was good to hear that the Poole Peregrines were active on both the main buildings too as they moved between Asda and Barclays.
Chiffchaff in the Blossom – Poole – Clare Slade
Mediterranean Gulls – Lytchett Fields – Ian Ballam
Spring seems to be creeping along with more displaying and nest building birds today, including multiple Raven pairs/territories…
Find out moreAlthough you couldn’t see further than 100m for much of the day, there were birds to be found…
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