It’s always good fun trying to take a large school group out on a bird boat when a dense thick fog sets across the harbour. Without being able to see where the water ended and the skyline began our school group were treated to one of the most eerie voyages we’d ever done as various vessels appeared out of the gloom like ghost ships. That said, by midday (and just as the trip ended) the fog cleared giving way to another balmy, hot early October day.  With the sun beating down, the late summer migrants wouldn’t feel out of place with 2 each of Wheatear and Yellow Wagtail enjoying them selves at Sunnyside Pools and a light trickle of Swallow going over for most of the day. A late Grasshopper Warbler was ringed at Lytchett Heath and at Middlebere there was 3 Spotted Redshank, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 6 Grey Plover, c50  Avocet and 12 Wigeon. On our Brownsea Lagoon webcam a flock of 25 Spoonbill dropped in around 2pm and the Peregrine was sat on the Tamarisk Island for most of the day.