This July we’ll be entering the second phase of our Osprey translocation project here in Poole Harbour with 14 new chicks arriving in early July. Over the next two weeks we have one of the nesting/feeding platforms from the project set up in our BoPH HQ on Poole Quay so your own little chicks can come and have a sit in a real life Osprey nest before it gets put in place ready for the real deal later in July. Come down and meet our team and learn about this years project and where the best places will be to try and see them. Don’t forget we also have our Osprey cruises heading out this summer (Aug 22^nd-29^th) so why not book on to one of those for a full overview of the project and the chance of seeing this years youngsters or any passage Osprey before they head off down to West Africa this winter.

Talking of Osprey there was one at Arne again having been absent for several days. At Lytchett Fields it seemed a few of the waders had moved off with only 23 Ringed Plover and 11 Dunlin left over. Also a Cuckoo was calling near the sewage works at Lytchett Bay along Slough Lane.

Osprey nest installation – BoPH HQ, Poole Quay