Sightings06/09/2020

Harbour Update – posted 06/09/20

Autumn (to winter) ramped up a notch today with reports that the first skeins of Pink-footed Geese were arriving along the NE coast and the first American wader of the season was tracked down at Kimmeridge in the shape of a gorgeous juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper. These milestones were equalled by a sad fact that it seems that quite a few of the recent Osprey seemed to move on either yesterday afternoon or first thing this AM with only single sightings of birds at Middlebere, Lytchett Bay and a couple of sightings in the Wareham Channel. The chill in the air this AM certainly made it feel like change is coming and the fact the harbour now has even more Pintail and Wigeon highlights this. A ringing session in the west of the harbour in the lower Piddle Valley produced 1 adult male Redstart, 2 Tree Pipit, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 1 Cettiā€™s Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff and 1 Willow Warbler. At Swineham GP and on the scrapes there was 1 Hobby, 1 Cattle Egret, 136 Coot, 14 Gadwall, 13 Little Egret (on the pit island), 14 Lapwing, 1 adult Yellow-legged Gull and 1 Black-tailed Godwit with 3 different Marsh Harrier around too. At a low-tide Baiter there were good counts of 28 Oystercatcher, 1 juv Greenshank, 11 Turnstone, 23 Ringed Plover, 1 Tree Pipit (over) 2 Yellow Wagtail and 116 Starling. Lytchett Bay saw 316 Teal, 4 Wigeon, 6 Knot, 2 Spotted Redshank and 1 Yellow-legged Gull. Holes Bay NE had 98 Redshank, 2 Pintail, 775 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Water Rail, 53 Wigeon and 83 Teal. In the Wareham Channel from our Osprey watch point 19 Spoonbill were feeding on the low-tide. There were 2 Hobby over Middlebere.

Common Redstart – Lower Piddle

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