RSPB Arne and Studland Bay 26th August 2016
One of the highlights of the rserve is not the cafe and shop which sits slightly uphill of the visitor centre. This used to belong to afarmer but they persuased him to move to a building a few hundred metres away so they could convert the farmhouse into a visitor cafe with shop and toilets. Apparently there had been a Nightjar roosting in a tree near the cafe and it had been roosting for a good length of time. THe bad news for us, though, was that it seemed to have moved off. Still it gave us an excuse to have a cup of tea while we scanned the trees for it.