After yesterday’s busyness of nest prepping, female Osprey CJ7 ramped it up a gear this morning and was really active around the Middlebere platform, bringing sticks and moss to the nest for a good hour or so before drifting off high NW not to be seen again for the rest of the day! The NE wind had really picked up by midday and it was FFFreeeeeezing when not in a sheltered spot, but other sightings of Swallow pulsing through, 2 Little Ringed Plover at Sunnyside, a Common Whitethroat at the PC World drain, 2 Wheatear at Middlebere and the springs first Whimbrel in Lytchett Bay still tried to make it slightly spring like today. Other reports came in the shape of 3 Spoonbill at Shipstal, Arne, another Osprey (or possibly CJ7) drifted over Lytchett Bay and also the Corfe Road and on Lytchett Fields 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper and 1 Greenshank were present.

Osprey CJ7 in the Middlebere nest platform – Barbara Bisset