At least 100 Black-headed Gull were foraging offshore along with two Sandwich Tern and an adult Mediterranean Gull. A partial breeding plumage Great Northern Diver was on the sea with a second heading SW, as did a flock of six Turnstone.
Other wader records all came from the estuary with 114 Curlew, 17 Whimbrel, two Bar-tailed Godwit and single Dunlin and Ringed Plover. At least five Eider were on Finger Point at high tide.
Elsewhere a flock of seven Stock Dove were in Soft Sand Bay, with 21 Long-tailed Tit and a family of Reed Warbler around the edge of Greenland Lake.
Other Wildlife: Disappointing for butterflies again with just a few Meadow Brown and Common Blue noted on the wing as it warmed up. Other insects also became more active with sand hollows and small rabbit scrapes soon occupied by numbers of Common Spiny Digger Wasp Oxybelus uniglumis and Minute Digger Wasp Diodontus minutus.
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| Common Spiny Digger Wasp Oxybelus uniglumis - Alan Keatley |
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| Minute Digger Wasp Diodontus minutus - Alan Keatley |
Four Common Dolphin, including a calf, and a Harbour Porpoise were feeding offshore.
Nysius huttoni - Alan Keatley 
Medetera jacula, a woodpecker fly - Alan Keatley
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