Once again the Green Sandpiper total at Lytchett Fields increased again today with 7 now present across the site. This is quite a high total for mid June and we wouldn’t expect to see this many until later in the month. Are we witnessing the early return of these birds because the spring was just simply ‘too late’, therefore not allowing them to breed? How many will we see arrive over the coming days and will it just be Green Sandpiper or will we see the early return of many other wader species? The only other species of note reported to us was a Hobby at Middlebere, 3 Spoonbill flying over the Wareham Channel and 2 Woodlark at Holton Lee.