A short afternoon visit, with sunny and warm conditions after the mist finally cleared. Overhead 13 Meadow Pipit and a Siskin despite the late hour, with the exception of the first Dartford Warbler of the autumn, grounded migrants were similarly in short supply with just three Chiffchaff and a Goldcrest.
The tide was only half way in but 37 Ringed Plover, 18 Dunlin and two Turnstone were in the Bight, with three Sandwich Tern also in the estuary.
Other Wildlife: The Ivy continues to attract numbers of Common Wasp, Honey and Ivy Bee along with several hoverfly species, including the first Pale-knobbed Didea D. fasciata of the year.
Other hoverflies included Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax, Glass-winged S. vitripennis and Humming Syrphus S. ribesii, and Long Sphaerophoria scripta, Marmalade Episyrphus balteatus, Tiger Helophilus pendulus and Large Tiger Hoverfly H. trivittatus.
Also on the wing the cranefly Tipula confusa, five species of butterfly including Red Admiral and three dragonfly species; Common Darter, Migrant and Southern Hawker.
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