This unsettled spell is gradually coming to an end and by Tuesday some decent calmer weather will be us, hopefully encouraging some more migrants to pass through. Some new arrivals did appear today with 2 Cattle Egret appearing on Lytchett Fields, where the adult Curlew Sandpiper was still present along with 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 55 Redshank and c30 Lapwing. At Swineham there were 2 adult Yellow-legged Gull on the scrape, an adult moulting Marsh Harrier was over the reed bed and 2 adult Osprey, assumed to be CJ7 and 022 were out over the Wareham Channel. At Middlebere there were 5 Spoonbill still, 1 Spotted Redshank and 2 Greenshank. The Brownsea Team also announced today that despite a poor early start to the breeding season, the Sandwich Tern colony still managed to fledge 40 youngsters this year, which is quite amazing considering at one point in mid-May it looked like none were going to nest or fledge.
We also reported the recent shenanigans of our now resident pair of Ospreys, 022 and CJ7 who went missing from the nest-cam about a month ago. There seemed to be an air of concern about their disappearance, and whether they were still showing signs of wanting to nest. Well, we can confirm that the pair are still firmly togther, but have in fact spent the last month building (well adding to) another nest platform in the harbour. This isn’t unusual so late in the season, especially for a pair of Osprey that didn’t successfully breed, and it could be that the pair have been building whats called a frustration nest, or they’re simply looking to keep their options open for next year? Either way, they’re still very much into one another, and really haven’t gone far.
CJ7 and 022 on their new (temporary?) nest platform elsewhere in the harbourĀ
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