Sunday 4th August 2024
I spent the day at Arne RSPB and Middlebere Heath and channel
which overlooks the Arne Peninsula. Bird of the day was a female Osprey which
had caught a rather substantial lunch and spent the afternoon flying to various
favoured posts to consume it. The crows tried to muscle in on the meal but she
was having none of this sweeping one bird away with a flap of her wing.
This is one of two un-ringed birds in the Poole Harbour area at
present both met during the morning and quickly decided to part waves both
heading for separate areas around the harbour.
The early morning start at Shipstall Point produced a Whimbrel, Curlews,
Common Sandpipers, Black Tailed Godwits Sandwich and Common Terns.
A Hobby was noted swooping at the gulls on the mud spooking them
all Peregrine style from the Middlebere hide mid afternoon. The closest views
of Hobby for some time but I was too slow to react!
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