Beautifully settled today and nice and warm. Not too much to report other than the 5 Little Ringed Plover still on the Stilt Pools at Swineham with 4 adult Yellow-legged Gulls. The first dispersing Woodlark was heard flying south over Wareham Common and a Hobby went over there too. Holes Bay saw 101 Redshank this morning with 48 Black-tailed Godwit, 25+ Curlew & 1 Whimbrel plus 1 Teal. The White-tailed Eagle pair were in the Wareham Channel all day and male Osprey 022 caught fish in Middlebere and in the Wareham Channel and in Brands Bay on the low-tide 1 Whimbrel and 58 Curlew were feeding with 9 Common Sandpiper around the fringes of the bay.

We also got a nice reminder on our Facebook page this morning that 7 years ago this today we received our first batch of Osprey chicks for our translocation project. It was pouring with rain and freezing cold that day! Amazing to see how things have progressed from Osprey chicks in their rearing pens in 2017, to a family of six on a wild nest here in Poole Harbour.

Osprey chicks settling in to their new pens on July 11th 2017

Roll forward 7 years….and a family of six on a Poole Harbour nest