Are we beginning to see a new mid-July trend? On Saturday we had 7 Great White Egret appear on Lytchett Fields, then a Bittern was seen dropping into the Frome Mouth on Sunday evening then tonight a juvenile Purple Heron was found at Littlesea Studland which is actually only the 3^rd ever Poole Harbour record. This is notable as it possibly highlights the early dispersal of either recently fledged young heron species or post breeding birds as they begin to move south. We’ve had returning/passing Great White Egret each July now for the last three years, so will other species passing through this time of year soon become the ‘norm’? Passage waders were still moving around with 23 Green Sandpiper on Lytchett Fields along with 4 Common Sandpiper and 6 Greenshank with 1 Spotted Redshank, 8 Greenshank, 1 Spoonbill and both godwit species on the Brownsea Lagoon plus an Arctic Tern was seen off the SW corner of Brownsea. An Osprey was in Middlebere on and off for most of the day. In Holes Bay NE there were 3 Common Sandpiper, 102 Black-tailed Godwit and 38 Little Egret recently roosted there.