Yesterday saw an arrival of Wheatear and today certainly saw a rush of Osprey with 3 different individuals logged within an hours time frame out in the Wareham Channel. Each caught a fish and headed towards the Arne area but couldn’t be pinned down to a feeding snag to check for leg rings. For those that don’t know, as well as the live Osprey nest cam, we also have cameras on five other nests within the harbour area too. These aren’t live webcams, but in fact 4G trail cams that link to the phone network and send us images every 2 hours from 5am – 11pm, so when/if an Osprey lands on a remote nest platform within a private area we’ll know about it. As expected all of this years Osprey so far have been staging/passage birds that are having a quick feed in the harbour before continuing off north. It won’t be for another week or so until non-breeding individuals begin arriving and could start showing an interest in some of the nest platforms, and that hopefully includes CJ7 too. There were still several Wheatear on top of Hartland and 1 at Stoborough Heath and a Great White Egret was at the base of Hartland Moor out on Slepe Moor. At Swineham first thing there were c100 Sand Martin which left pretty quickly and the Egyptian Geese that have been on the Rugby pitch have now got goslings. On the Brownsea Lagoon there were 2 Spoonbill, in Oakdale a Red Kite drifted overhead.

Great White Egret – Swineham (yesterday) – Peter Moore