There’s a great new Nightjar study taking place on the boarders of the harbour which is a joint partnership project between the Stour Ringing Group, Bournemouth Uni and Biotrack. For regular updates follow their new twitter profile @DNightjars. Last night their team were out on a heath in the north of the harbour where they caught their first 5 birds  (2 females and 3 males) and between the five, three were fitted with radio tags to enable the team to track and find nesting sites and gage where birds are heading off to feed at night. At Lytchett Fields there were 88 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Lapwing, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Grey Plover 1 Greenshank and already a build up of Teal with 24 counted. A Puffin cruise also left Poole Harbour this evening, which ventured out towards Dancing Ledge. Although this is a tiny colony in comparison to other sites around the UK, just 3 birds were seen which mirrors the sad decline of this birds national population with bigger breeding colonies seeing big drops in their population. Also logged from the boat were 25 Bar-tailed Godwit and 30 Black-tailed Godwit on the Brownsea Lagoon, plenty of Common and Sandwich Tern fishing in Studland Bay, several Gannet close to the boat near Old Harry, a Peregrine over the boat and a few Kittiwake and Fulmar.