Today was another beautifully crisp autumn/winters day with a cold bite in the NW wind. Reported sightings were few and far between though, maybe everyone was enjoying the sun too much. In Studland Bay there were 2 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Common Scoter and 3 Red-breasted Merganser. An evening roost check at Hatch Pond saw 138 Magpie settle in their favored roosting tree. In Middlebere there were 400+ Avocet, 140+ Lapwing, 40+ Brent Geese and a single Marsh Harrier.
It was a grim start to the day, but amazingly it cleared really quickly and produced some decent…
Find out moreToday had lots of eastern promise which sadly didn’t deliver. But when you’ve already had Bluethroats and Hoopoes…
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