Sightings30/08/2018

Harbour Update – posted 29/08/18

Today was due to be our last Osprey cruise of the autumn but with another 5 Osprey and a surge on public interest we’ve decided to put on one last trip on Sept 6th at 9am. If you’d like to join us for this very last trip then you can do by clicking HERE. To add to our Osprey bonanza a gang of 4 Common Seal on the resting platform off Shipstal Beach, Arne was an unexpected surprise. Yet again, wader interest on the lagoon was similar to recent days with 3 Turnstone, 5 Sanderling, 2 Knot, 3 Greenshank, c100 Dunlin, 22 Avocet, c40 Ringed Plover, c150 Black-tailed Godwit and the 16 Spoonbill. In Middlebere a Lesser Yellowlegs was reported with a small flock of Greenshank but sadly couldn’t be confirmed or re-found later. Also a Woodchat Shrike was reported on the western edge of Hartland Moor but again, sadly disappeared too quickly before being confirmed. At Middlebre there were 2 adult Osprey, 16 Greenshank, 1 Spotted Redshank and 1 Grasshopper Warbler. At Holton Lee another adult Osprey flew low over Holton Pools and headed toward Wareham Forest. The autumns first Pintail was on Lytchett Fields with 1 Spotted Redshank, 28 Dunlin and 2 Ringed Plover. The young Hen Harrier was seen out again along the mouth of the Frome.

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