Interestingly they appear to be different Spoonbill from Friday! One had black wing tips visible and the other was ringed

Holes Bay this afternoon, 1 Spot Red, 2 Knot, 2500 Blackwit and 12 singing/displaying Firecrest on a circuit round the woods @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Checking up on local nest box cameras the other day I came across something I have not seen before in ~30 years of monitoring barn owl boxes....a tawny owl in a box with a pair of barn owls! Thankfully a couple of days later the barn owls were still present and the tawny owl had moved on.

Last night marked the first time the adult female peregrine (VTR) in Poole roosted at the wooden nest box overnight, signaling that egg-laying is imminent.

Ringed Curlew. Redshank. Wigeon.
Holes Bay North. Poole Harbour #birdsseenin2026 @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @britishwildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Forster's Tern
Poole Park, Dorset
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Glorious Godwit in Holes Bay this morning 💚 @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

2 types of animals fishing in Poole Harbour #birdsseenin2026 #holesbaynaturereserve @harbourbirds.bsky.social #seals @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social @britishwildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @bournemouthecho.bsky.social

Forsters tern briefly popped into the lagoon just now and then vanished... good to see though! #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Think he's picked that carcass clean!

Hardy's Return of the Native, although fiction, is very rooted in the real landscape, and suggests that bustard were fairly numerous in the heaths in the early 1800s.

I had a Hummingbird Hawk moth in my garden this morning, Poole, Dorset.
That is the earliest I’ve seen one and it was cold and breezy.
I guess it overwintered here. lyndalambert.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
#Hummingbirdhawkmoth

Spring has begun... over the last week we have received 35 reports of Sand Martins, seven of Swallow, four each of Wheatear and House Martin, and two Red-rumped Swallows! #ukbirding

Nice to see the Sarnie Terns back on Brownsea on Friday, presumably the same adult and 1stW bird that have overwintered, but still seemed like a sign of spring @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

"He's eating us out of house and home!"

Med Gulls always look like they are up to something! @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

HG, the young male, literally coming between his parents on Friday! @dorsetraptors.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

This one from Upton CP looks like it has unconvincing googly eyes stuck on!

Isn't it the most dense deer population in the country? There has been more culling recently but don't know if it's had any effect?

1st Adder of the year at #LytchettFields yesterday , although one was seen by another observer on Sunday

A tatty Comma near Lytchett Matravers yesterday. A good day for butterflies with Peacock, Red Admiral, Brimstone and Small Tortoiseshell also recorded

@thomasweston.bsky.social 2 Greylag Holes Bay SE from Tony. 10 on Brownsea Friday 20/2, at least 2 ringed but distant

The attractive black underwing of the adult Little Gull in Holes Bay 20/02/26

Some of the 4000+ Blackwit on Holes Bay this morning, with c500 Dunlin @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Whereabouts was the Greylag Tony, North or South or the Embankment? Have you got the details to report the ring?

Spring has officially landed with 3 Sand Martin at Swineham GP. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Glorious views of WTE pair G463 and G466 right overhead, gracefully soaring, and calling loudly. Worth getting a bad neck for 😅 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Had Peacock, Brimstone and Early Bumblebee in the Wareham Garden 🐝🦋

Holes Bay South. Poole Harbour #birdsseenin2026 @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @btoengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bournemouthecho.bsky.social

And now a Comma in the garden. That’s three butterfly species today, and it’s still February @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social