A stunning start to the day today with our Carey Osprey chicks being ringed, and incredibly it was almost anther clean sweep of males. The eldest chick, which we ringed 5R3 was a whopping 1.7kg which clearly indicates a female weight, where as the other three were all sub 1.5kg which indicates males. Great news considering we’re now already beginning to see young males of ours return with 2023 chick 5H3 being recorded for the first time yesterday. He was once again in Lytchett Bay flirting quite heavily with the new female 6C6, so there definitely seems to be ‘something’ there. The gull islands in the Wareham Channel took a bit of a hammering today with visits from Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Peregrine and both adult White-tailed Eagles! The latter of which was viewed from our Summer Safari Cruise this morning as both G466 and G463 both took juvenile gulls from the islands. On the Brownsea Lagoon 2 migrant Common Sandpiper were on the sea wall and 4 Spoonbill and 3 Avocet were on the lagoon with even more newly fledged juvenile Common and Sandwich Terns. At Lytchett Fields the 2 Spotted Redshank were still on the fields.

Carey Osprey chicks 2025

5R3 – 1.75kg – female
5R4 – 1.44kg – male
5R5 – 1.45kg – male
5R6 – 1.35kg – male