As autumn progresses the Brownsea Lagoon is definitely a site birders should be watching, noting and getting excited about. The opportunity it provides is huge but it needs almost constant monitoring to get a full appreciation of quite simply how many birds pass through the site over the course of a day, a week or even a month. Today there were 10 freshly arrived Common Sandpiper and 1 juvenile 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Greenshank and a Spoonbill. Hangers on from the summer included 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 21 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Avocet and 6 Dunlin. There were also 18 fledged Sandwich Tern chicks out of a total of c80 on the lagoon.