We’ve been making a lot of comment on Osprey behaviour and sightings from around the harbour in recent weeks, with CJ7 receiving most attention. We’ve had a team out monitoring her activities and we’ve noted some interesting behaviour on some of the nest platforms and today we got some nice photos of her nest prepping and stick carrying at the Middlebere platform. This was the first time we’d logged this behaviour on this particular platform and it’s truly an exciting development in the hoped for re-colonisation of Osprey here on the south coast for the first time in a few hundred years. All we’re hoping for now is that one of our male Osprey chicks from 2017 returns to the harbour over the coming weeks and strikes up a bond with CJ7 in preparation for possible breeding to take place next spring.

It also felt  very spring like out on the heathlands with the springs first Cuckoo calling out at Morden Bog, Wareham Forest. At Lytchett Fields 1 Yellow Wagtail flew over and there were 4 Little Ringed Plover and 2 Spotted Redshank on the fields.

Female Osprey CJ7 nest prepping on Middlebere Platform