When waders begin passing through there tends to be nowhere better than the Brownsea Lagoon or more recently now, Lytchett Fields. Today the latter site saw 49 Ringed Plover arrive along with a summer plumaged Knot, 29 Dunlin, 8 Grey Plover, 248 Black-tailed Godwit and 2 Oystercatcher along with a freshly arrived Arctic Tern hawking in Lytchett Bay. On the Brownsea Lagoon a freshly arrived Black Tern also hawked over the area for a short while before exiting the harbour mid-morning and there was another decent showing of Sanderling with c30 present on the lagoon. At South Haven a Little Tern was out feeding with 65 Common Tern near the harbour mouth, also there a Cuckoo, 1 Spotted Flycatcher and a modest passage of Swift and House Martin.

Sanderling – Lytchett Fields – Ian Ballam

Grey Plover – Lytchett Fields – Ian Ballam

Knot – Lytchett Fields – Ian Ballam