It was nice to see some blue sky and sunshine again today! There were plenty of great birds across the harbour, in particular the year’s third pied flycatcher at Lytchett Heath, where there were also 2 juvenile Dartford warblers, plenty of chiffchaffs and a few willow warblers. On Lytchett Fields, there was a whinchat in the approach field this afternoon, along with the autumn’s first meadow pipits, a great white egret, a marsh harrier and a female teal with 3 half-grown ducklings, while the waders there included 2 spotted redshank, a season’s high count of 328 black-tailed godwit, 17 greenshank, 17 dunlin, a green sandpiper and a common sandpiper. There were at least 3 osprey in Lytchett Bay throughout the day, with one seen to catch a fish early this morning, and another osprey was seen carrying a fish and subsequently feeding in Middlebere too. From Arne, 7 spoonbill, 3 avocets, a greenshank and 2 buzzards were also seen. Elsewhere, the Brownsea Lagoon hosted 43 spoonbills, 18 avocets, 9 greenshank and 3 Mediterranean gulls, and in the PCW Drain there were a spotted flycatcher, a blackcap, a whitethroat and several chiffchaffs, as well as a kingfisher in Holes Bay. Finally, 3 wood sandpipers were reported on the Lower Piddle floods.