Counts over high tide included 259 Oystercatcher, three Sanderling and a Grey Plover, with the six Eider roosting on Finger Point.
Elsewhere seven Swift were overhead and three Sandwich Tern were offshore.
Other Wildlife: The fine weather saw a number of new species appearing for the year. Hoverflies included Bumblebee Plumehorn Volucella bombylans, Bumblebee Blacklet Cheilosia illustrata and Migrant Field Syrph Eupeodes corollae.
Bumblebee Plumehorn Volucella bombylans - Alan Keatley 
Bumblebee Blacklet Cheilosia illustrata - Alan Keatley
Other insects included Turnip Sawfly Athalia rosae, Fan-bristled Robberfly Dysmachus trigonus, Striped-legged Robberfly Dioctria baumhaueri, a female White-zoned Furrow Bee Lasioglossum leucozonium digging out a nest hole and a nectaring Bristle-tailed Anoplius A. infuscatus.
Fan-bristled Robberfly Dysmachus trigonus - Alan Keatley 
White-zoned furrow Bee Lasioglossum leucozonium - Alan Keatley
Also on the wing four Meadow Brown and a Red Admiral, a Black Mining Bee Andrena pilipes at Langstone Rock, an Ornate Brigadier Odontomyia ornata in the Back Meadow and a Vestal Cuckoo Bee Bombus vestalis in the Entrance Bushes.
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