It was Osprey-mania today with goodness knows how many individuals in the harbour. From our cruise this AM we logged no less than 9 individuals moving about between the Wareham Channel, Middlebere and Lytchett Bay. There were also 2 logged in Holes Bay this morning. Although the wind had picked up by the afternoon, we still saw up to 7 on our afternoon cruise, with multiple sightings of birds interacting with one another. One notable absence was female CJ7 who we don’t believe visited the nest site today? Has she now left on migration? We’ll find out over the next few days, although she did trick us last year by going missing for a week before then reappearing on a different harbour nest platform seven days later! There were also several Marsh Harrier in the Wareham Channel today and one of the White-tailed Eagles flew over Keysworth briefly this afternoon. On the Brownsea Lagoon there were 23 Spoonbill, along with c200 Dunlin, c70 Ringed Plover, 11 Greenshank, 7 Sanderling, 4 Common Sandpiper and 109 Redshank.

Female Osprey on harbour nest platform camera trap