I can't remember anything of the film, other than the often-repeated phrase "I'm back" that Arnold Schwarzenegger used in one of his dull Terminator films from decades ago, when there were few TV options to watch in the evening.
On a much more interesting note, in Apr 23, a Forster's Tern was found at Lytchett Bay and it was only the second Dorset record, albeit it had turned up a couple of weeks earlier at Sutton Bingham reservoir. It stayed until mid-May and travelled widely around central and Northern Poole Harbour away, when it wasn't at its regular Brownsea haunt. It reappeared in Poole Harbour in mid-July. Just as we thought it would overwinter, it disappeared in mid-Nov and was seen soon after in North France. We weren't surprised when it reappeared the following Spring and Autumn. Several UK and Irish records have settled into long staying patterns, so nobody was suprised when it popped up again in late Mar 25 at Arne: one of its favourite locations. I didn't make any effort to chase it as I was expecting it to reappear on Brownsea. Sure enough it was seen on the lagoon a couple of days later. I was expecting it to be there on my next volunteering day. I arrived into the new Lookout hide and scanned the Boomerang Island: Sandwich Tern, Sandwich Tern, Sandwich Tern, Forster's Tern. That was easy. It spent most of the day on the lagoon that day.
I spent the morning chatting to members of the public in the Lookout hide and it wasn't until the afternoon, that I managed to visit to the Avocet hide. It was good to see this close Redshank just in front of the hide. Every now and then a Wader will happily feed on the mud close to the hide.
After I was relieved from operating the vid-scope in the Avocet hide, it was time to head to the villa for a break. This Female Mallard must take the record for the greatest number of ducklings I've seen a Mallard with: nineteen is a pretty good clutch. I wonder how many will survive?
It had been a good day volunteering on the Brownsea lagoon.