It’s almost the longest day of the year, and things are due to warm up considerably next week so maybe we’ll get that summer feeling soon after all? There are an abundance of young common birds around the harbour currently with post breeding Starling flocks now forming in various areas and a group of nearly 200 along the Slepe Heath edge heading into an Arne Moors reed bed. At Holton Lee a really tatty female Marsh Harrier lofted over the heath and out towards the Bay both Ospreys CJ7 and LS7 drifted east towards the Wareham Channel. On Holton Pools there were 22 Black-tailed Godwit and at Lytchett Fields there were 172 with 7 Redshank and 3 Teal. At Middlebere a Cuckoo was still calling and a Hobby was over Slepe Heath.