What changeable weather! One minute there were blue skies and the next it was bucketing it down. A Great Northern Diver frequented Parkstone Bay and a ringtail Hen Harrier was seen again over Hartland Moor. A single Swallow was zipping around Corfe Castle this morning. The Corfe Castle – Swanage walk via Nine Barrow Down offered 2 singing Yellowhammer among Skylark, Stonechat and more numerous Meadow Pipit. Elsewhere, Swanage logged its first Wheatear at Peveril Point.
Mediterranean Gulls – Brownsea Lagoon – David Foster

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