Experience the Autumn spectacle of thousands of waders gathering at our reserve at Arne.

It has been a bit of a soggy week but that still hasn't put the wildlife off.

In fact the waders and ducks don't seem to mind at all. We have seen black tailed godwits, great crested grebe, goldeneye, teal, wigeon, shoveler, red breasted merganser, shelduck, curlew, dunlin, oystercatcher, little egret, grey heron, yellow legged gull, great black backed gull, redshank, over 40 avocet, over 400 Brent geese and over 40 lapwing.

It is good to see more ducks joining the hundreds of teal and wigeon already here, especially the goldeneye which over winter in large numbers on the harbour.

We have a small, vulnerable breeding population of black-tailed godwits on a few wet meadows and marshes in the UK.

They migrate to West Africa for winter whereas the ones from Iceland spend the winter in the UK. Many of the teals which congregate in low-lying wetlands in the south and west of the UK in winter are continental birds from around the Baltic and Siberia.

The UK is home to a significant percentage of the NW European wintering population.

At Shipstal Point at Arne you can enjoy panoramic views over Poole Harbour, the salt marsh and water/mudflats of Arne Bay and we have recently seen little egrets, curlews, oystercatchers and large groups of Brent geese just off of the shore line.

On Wednesday over 50 red-breasted merganser were seen from the Shipstal Hide and over 100 Avocets and large numbers of teal and wigeon have been spotted from Coombe Heath Hide.

Based on information supplied by the RSPB.