Friday 4th May

A warm but overcast day that saw a small arrival of migrants overnight with a Grasshopper Warbler reeling in Dead Dolphin Wood the highlight, also two singing Sedge Warbler and four Wheatear on site. Offshore three Arctic Tern, two Eider, three Red-throated and a Great Northern Diver.

 Wheatear - Alan Keatley

 

Elsewhere a Jay was on Langstone Rock, the immature male Kestrel continues to feast on the translocated Sand Lizards on Warren Point and counts from the estuary included 34 Dunlin, 20 Whimbrel, two Curlew and two Ringed Plover.

Kestrel - Alan Keatley

Wildlife News: The only remaining Green-winged Orchid on site is again in flower in Greenland Lake.

Green-winged Orchid - Alan Keatley