There was certainly plenty of wildlife at Arne yesterday evening with both the Middlebere Barn Owls hunting out over the reed beds of Middlebere, 2 Spoonbill were out in the channel with 30_+ Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Redshank, 4 Curlew and 2 two broods of Shelduck. There was an abundance of Nightjar song, with a good deal of visual activity too. In the Arne car park there were juvenile Tawny Owls calling and several bat species doing laps around our head, most likely Natterer’s Bat. At RSPB Lytchett Fields numbers of Redshank and Lapwing have swelled slightly with 35 and 27 present yesterday evening along with 5 Green Sandpiper at the western end of the site.
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