Seawatching early morning saw a Great Skua SW at 6am, along with 84 Kittiwake, 66 Gannet, 25 Common Scoter, 13 Great Northern and six Red-throated Diver, nine Manx Shearwater, nine Fulmar and a ♂ Tufted Duck in 2hr.45m. Also offshore, three Sandwich Tern and a dark phase Arctic Skua chasing Kittiwake.
On a neap tide just four Dunlin and a Grey Plover roosted in The Bight, the missing plovers perhaps sitting out the high tide elsewhere. Also in the estuary 11 Whimbrel and the five Eider with 26 Sanderling on the beach.
Other Wildlife: In the overcast weather, most insects were resting up out of the wind, with several beetles below the geotubes.
Red-headed Cardinal Pyrochroa serraticornis - Alan Keatley
Bembidion lampros - Alan Keatley
Clivina fossor - Alan Keatley
Orange-tip - Alan Keatley
Panorpa germanica, a Scorpion Fly - Alan Keatley
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