A wet and windy day in the harbour today with strong South-Westerlies, so sightings are few! The Brownsea webcameras are playing up in this weather but from what we can see there are 60+ Oystercatcher, 1 Curlew, 15+ Great Black-backed Gulls with juveniles, 1 Moorhen with a juvenile, 30+ Cormorant, the late c10 Common Terns pairs are still nesting on the far island from Mac hide (right hand side as looking out) that was previously used by the Sandwich Terns and Black-headed Gulls.
6 Mediterranean Gull were on Littlesea.
Today the first Rutland Osprey arrived, a female known as ‘025’, signalling the start of the 2026 Osprey…
Find out moreAfter going missing for a couple of days the Forster’s Tern reappeared on the Brownsea Lagoon today and…
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