Sightings26/06/2020

Harbour Update – posted 25/06/20

It seems the sun went to a few people’s heads today with thousands of people flocking to Dorset to get a taste of the sun, sea, sand and heat stroke! To get away from the madness and remind our selves that Dorset isn’t always full of such carnage we ventured out on to Slepe Heath to look for Nightjars and check our route and plan safety measures to see if we can host our Nightjar walks post July 4th. The great news is we’re pretty happy we can offer a set of safe and engaging Nightjar walks through July by reducing the number of participants from 20 to 10 and amending our route slightly. Some of our remaining trips are close to being fully booked already, but if you would like to join us here are the number of tickets left for our remaining walks and a link through to the booking page. Last night was such a treat with a minimum of 8-9 seen and plenty heard, so if you’d like a bit of (semi) normality in your life, why not join us?

July 7th – 3 spaces left

July 14th – 1 space left

July 21st – 10 spaces left

July 28th – 8 spaces left

We also checked the wetland site in the south of the harbour that we’ve been involved in over the last couple of years, which saw 6 freshly hatched Lapwing a couple of weeks ago. Well, tonight we could still see 3 young along with 3 adults meaning the site should see at least a 50% fledge rate, which is great. It was so hot today that other sightings were few and far between with female Osprey CJ7 seen briefly over the Wareham Channel, a new Marsh Harrier entered the harbour too from a great height, possibly a 2nd cal year male but heat haze made the aging and sexing tricky. A group of 5 Crossbill passed over the Piddle Valley and 3 Hobby were again over the Slepe Heath/Hartland area.

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