Sightings16/11/2020

Harbour Update – posted 15/11/20

The weather was rather ‘on/off’ today, but it seemed people were out looking to make up for the lack of birding on Saturday. There were some huge high and low tides with Lytchett Fields and both River Valley’s looking like permanent lakes. Best from the day included now 9 Great Northern Diver off Jerry’s Point along with 2 Scaup, 1 Common Scoter and 6 Black-necked Grebe. Off Middle Beach were 2 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Great Northern Diver and 4 Gannet. Poole Bay was busy with Gannet with a minimum of c50 tearing back and fourth. Baiter Beach on the low tide in the evening saw 1 Great Northern Diver just off the beach, as well as 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 31 Turnstone and 11 Brent Geese. Holes Bay SW was packed with birds and had c120 Avocet feeding just under the railway bridge, also a Jack Snipe was flushed from right on the edge of the dual carriage way, which if you think about it is probably one of the safest places to day roost if you’re a small bird as it’s unlikely a predator is going to actively be hunting on the road verge, apart from a cunning Kestrel. Out over the Wareham Channel 4 Marsh Harrier and a Merlin remained and a Great White Egret was spooked from the Middlebere Channel after a loud clap of thunder and there were 2 Spotted Redshank there too. The Brownsea Lagoon also saw up to 600 Avocet roosting there on the high tide.

Turnstone – Chain Ferry Slipway

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