Another encouraging day with some more migrants on the move as the first 3 Sedge Warbler of the autumn were ringed at Lytchett Bay. This is a species that doesn’t breed within the lytchett Bay area so we know they’re dispersing birds, albeit likely from a nearby breeding site. Beautiful summer-plumaged Black-tailed Godwit are already beginning to appear in numbers with c125 at Holes Bay and c185 in Lytchett Bay, plus a decent sized flock in Middlebere. Also at Middlebere were 4 Spoonbill, 1 Cuckoo and an Osprey was seen over Hydes Heath, Arne. In Brands Bay there were 71 Curlew and 2 Whimbrel and 5 Greenshank were in Lytchett Bay. In the Brownsea Channel there were c180 Common Tern and c30 Sandwich Tern. On the Swineham scrapes there were 7 Egyptian Geese goslings and 2 adults and on Arne Moors a Great White Egret and an adult Yellow-legged Gull.

Whimbrel – Brands Bay – Garry Hayman