A quick update only today. Today at last saw us get our first black tern of the autumn, sadly they only stayed a few minutes and I missed them but a group of four is good and hopefully there will be more to come. When I have opened the Tern hide the last couple of days there have been lots of wagtails, mostly pied but yesterday 3 and today 4 yellow wagtail, not common birds here. The osprey from the weekend has been seen everyday until today, and I suspect that it was the “large bird” seen by a visitor to the west of Ibsley Water that flushed lots of grey heron, so I am pretty sure it is still around.
Hopefully more to report tomorrow.
Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve 
Saw this in corridor of our new home on Isle of Wight at Wootton Bridge. Will send photo separately. Hope you don’t mind my asking. Still enjoying your posts even though we have just moved away. Regards, Sheena Ganderton
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