Brownsea Lagoon

Turnstone standing guard.

Spoonbills arriving

Undercarriage down

Watch the Avocets!

Egret with minnow?

Worth zooming in on this one

Panicking Blackwits

Blackwit wallpaper

One of this year's birds with some winter scapulars

Colour-ringed bird. Details to follow

Red Squirrel legging it down path

Swineham

One of this years Marsh Harriers still in pretty fresh juvenile plumage. Note the line of pale spots on the upper coverts and general dark appearance

Dark underwing also

It's been a long day

Brownsea Lagoon

Turnstone on one of the islands, still a few sum plum feathers left

Nice juv Blackwit with Spot Red

Adult Little Stint through scope

Ballard

Not too much going here. Highlight was locating a Grasshopper Warbler by subsong, quite an odd noise really, a rippling with a quality not unlike a Robin.

Nice pic of some brambles

19th Sept

Glebelands at first light. Snipe high west early morning also 2 Rock Pipit moving. 4 Mistle Thrush north was unexpected.

Garden Warbler at South Beach and this lovely Pigeon resting on one of the beach huts. Not in the racing mood today.

This bird was soaring high over Swineham GPs in the company of 5 Common Buzzard

Gilbert

Gilbert the Bottlenose Whale showing on and off at Poole Bay today just west of Bournemouth Pier

Another slightly different shot

Glebelands again

Pair of Sparrowhawk courting early morning

Local Yellowhammer

Wheatear coughing up a pellet