Counts over the high tide included 155 Curlew, 22 Whimbrel, 12 Redshank, two Bar-tailed Godwit and a Greenshank, with 10 Sandwich Tern dropping into The Bight and the six Eider on Finger Point.
Elsewhere 19 Common Scoter and a Great Crested Grebe were off the seawall.
Other Wildlife: Butterflies today included an increase in Meadow Brown along with four Small Copper, three Small Skipper and two Gatekeeper.
Small Skipper - Dean Hall |
Other insects recorded today included Lesser Stag Beetle Dorcus parallelipipedus by the Dune Pond, a few Black-and-yellow Longhorn Rutpela maculata, and on Warren Point, a Narrow-bodied Cuckoo Wasp Chrysis angustula.
Lesser Stag Beetle - Alan Keatley |
Narrow-bodied Cuckoo Wasp Chrysis angustula - Alan Keatley |
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