With summer seeming to steal the hand of autumn once more, a gorgeous day was to be had which saw the two Common Crane from yesterday being re-found, although sadly by an estate worker on private land with no access. Hey hoe, maybe they’ll have the decency to hop on about 100m so that they can be visible from a well known nature reserve in the harbour. At ringing and migration stations in the harbour Blackcap are certainly the most common species encountered currently with 64 logged moving through Ballard along with 12 Chiffchaff, 3 Reed Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler and 1 Stonechat. In Middlebere 2 different Marsh Harrier were seen and 11 Knot were in the channel. On the Brownsea Lagoon 11 Spoonbill were present which seem to be a separate flock from the current Shipstal birds. We’ll try and conduct a full count over the coming days to see how much the combined harbour flock has risen too.