Thursday 29th August

There was again no sign of the Wryneck this morning although a Garden Warbler was present in the same area. The Wryneck was however refound late afternoon on the golf course side of Greenland Lake, occasionally seen perched up in scrub closely watched by a Willow Warbler and three juvenile Cirl Bunting.

Wryneck - Lee Collins

Four Pale-bellied Brent Geese in the estuary would have been the earliest ever autumn record were it not for the seven last Friday. Also in the estuary 243 Redshank, 165 Dunlin, 128 Ringed Plover, 11 Whimbrel, six Mediterranean Gull, six Bar-tailed Godwit, five Eider, four Knot, four Sanderling and a Turnstone. The Oystercatcher count was interrupted by a large immature Peregrine. 

Pale-bellied Brent Geese - Alan Keatley

Two Balearic and a Manx Shearwater flew SW early evening with six Common Scoter, two Arctic Skua, a Great Northern and the Black-throated Diver also offshore. 

Elsewhere an Osprey was over the car park, a Snipe was overhead and a Kingfisher was at the Main Pond.

Other Wildlife: The highlights were two nationally scarce digger wasps in the Entrance Bushes; Two-banded Hopper Wolf Lestiphorus bicinctus and Broad-banded Hopper Wolf Gorytes laticinctus, the latter new for the Recording Area.

Two-banded Hopper Wolf Lestiphorus bicinctus - Alan Keatley

Broad-banded Hopper Wolf Gorytes laticinctus - Alan Keatley

Bees included Common Lasioglossum calceatum and Green Furrow Bee L. morio and hoverflies noted included Common Eristalis tenax, Plain-faced E. arbustorum and Tapered Dronefly E. pertinax, Hornet Plumehorn Volucella zonaria and the migrants Large Tiger Hoverfly Helophilus trivittatus and Compost Hoverfly Syritta pipiens.

Common Furrow Bee Lasioglossum calceatum - Alan Keatley

Plain-faced Dronefly Eristalis arbustorum - Alan Keatley

Several migrant Silver Y were in the flower meadows and a female Sand Lizard was on the Dune Ridge.