Rain, rain, go away, come again next year! It’s getting boring now with periods of rain and grey pretty much every day. It feels like we’re yearning for a long, settled period of decent weather where the warmth of the sun bursts everything into life. The only main reported highlights today were 3 Black-necked Grebe, 7 Great Northern Diver and 1 Slavonian Grebe off Jerry’s Point. The Goosander was in Holes Bay again and there was a Spotted Redshank and Lytchett Fields. A few Red Kite were moving with 6 over Corfe Castle, and 2 over Studland. On Wareham Common there were 19 Cattle Egret and a female Mandarin flew over the lower Piddle Valley at Carey Secret Garden.