Offshore several of the seven lingering Great Northern Diver are in heavy wing moult rendering them flightless, so they'll be around for a while yet. Also present 11 Common Scoter, two Sandwich and a Common Tern.
Great Northern Diver - Alan Keatley
The first day of July and for increasing numbers of waders the breeding season is over with a Common Sandpiper a scarce visitor to the Main Pond on its southward journey. More unusual though was a Snipe which circled low over Greenland Lake, the earliest ever autumn record, after one on 06 July 2001.
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| Common Sandpiper - Alan Keatley |
In the estuary counts included 227 Curlew, 34 Redshank, 17 Whimbrel and four Greenshank, with the six Eider on Finger Point and five Mediterranean Gull in the saltmarsh.
Elsewhere a Green Woodpecker was on site, 104 Swift fed overhead briefly and eight Stock Dove were on Warren Point.
Other Wildlife: Doratura stylata, a new leafhopper for the Recording Area was found on Warren Point, the 296th site bug.
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| Doratura stylata - Alan Keatley |
Other bugs found amongst the sand included the hopper Megophtalmus scabripennis and the ground bug Megalonotus chiragra and, in vegetation, the mirid Plagiognathus arbustorum.
Megophtalmus scabripennis - Alan Keatley 
Plagiognathus arbustorum - Alan Keatley
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