As august progresses more and more migrants are being reported heading south and at sites right across the harbour you stand a good chance of encountering a whole range of species. At our ringing site near Ballard Down there was a nice mix of birds ringed this AM including a Pied Flycatcher, 31 Willow Warbler, 61 Sedge Warbler, 7 Reed Warbler, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 5 Garden Warbler and 8 Common Whitethroat. At Arne and Hartland Moor Wheatear are now trickling through and can be seen in two’s and three’s. A juvenile Common Cuckoo was on Stoborough Heath and at Middlebere 2 Osprey were hanging around the Middlebere nest platform for most of the day. It looks as if there were 2 Wood Sandpiper today with a bird present on Holton Pools with another on Lytchett Fields around the same time. In the west of the harbour despite a poor summer for Marsh Harrier they’re a bit more conspicuous with a couple of new birds passing through every so often and today one was seen over Middlebere and Swineham.