Migrants included two Willow and single Sedge and Garden Warbler on site, with a flock of six Lesser Black-backed Gull high S overhead. In the estuary the first autumn Common Gull was with 256 Black-headed and eight Mediterranean Gull, with the six Eider off Warren Point.
Other Wildlife: The first Shiny-vented Sharp-tailed Bee Coelioxys inermis of the year was searching cracks along the railway wall for leafcutter bee nests. Also recorded for the first time this year a Sycamore Piercer Pammene aurita, near the station, appropriately on a Sycamore, with the grass mirid Stenoderma calcarata and the hoverfly Dull-bellied Blacklet Cheilosia proxima in the Entrance Bushes.
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| Sycamore Piercer Pammene aurita - Alan Keatley |
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| Dull-bellied Blacklet Cheilosia proxima - Alan Keatley |
Other hoverflies included Hornet Volucella zonaria and Pied Plumehorn V. pellucens, with nine species of butterfly and four dragonfly species very active in the hot, sunny weather. Active bumblebees included Buff-tailed, Early and Common Carder Bee with a sun-bleached Vestal Cuckoo Bee still on the wing.
Vestal Cuckoo Bee Bombus vestalis - Alan Keatley
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