What a beautiful sunny day to take out a survey boat and head down the Wareham Channel to see what we could find. This is important research to document numbers of Summer/Autumn birds and keep and eye on potential threats to populations. The low tide allowed us to record a whole myriad species including a gargantuan 460 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Common Sandpiper, a Spotted Redshank, c90 Curlew, c40 Redshank, c30 Little Egret, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, 3 Mediterranean Gull, 153 Mute Swan, 10 Reed Warbler and a beautiful Osprey flying over the Channel, likely to be CJ7. Another Osprey was also spotted high over Ridge with a damaged/missing primary on its left wing.  

An additional 2 Spotted Redshank were seen over at Lytchett Fields in summer plumage, also a Greenshank, a Little Ringed Plover and 2 Common Sandpiper. The safe shores of Brownsea Lagoon are currently providing a nursery for a variety of chicks and ducklings with 8 Shelduck ducklings, 1 Moorhen Chick, 50 Oystercatcher chick, 218 Black-headed Gull juveniles, 7 Great Black-backed Gull juveniles, 73 Common Tern Chicks and 49 Sandwich Tern Chicks. Also logged were Curlew, 14 Bar-tailed Godwit, 17 Black-tailed Godwit, Mediterranean Gull, 5 Avocet and 5 Spoonbill. Lastly a flash of electric blue from a Kingfisher was photographed at Holton Pools.