Thursday 16th January

Thick fog prevented coverage of the high tide with two Greenshank and two Red-breasted Merganser present in the estuary at low tide. Viewing offshore was also limited early morning but 49 Great Crested Grebe, seven Pintail and two Great Northern Diver were present late afternoon.

Elsewhere nine Skylark were in The Bight, three Siskin, and single Chiffchaff and Goldcrest were in the bushes with three Shoveler on the Main Pond.

Year list additions:

92. Pintail

Other Wildlife: Several Petalwort Petalophylum ralfsii were growing well in the translocation area by the Entrance Bushes.

Petalwort Petalophylum ralfsii - Alan Keatley

The Grey Squirrel was on the Golf Course with a Grey Seal off Langstone Rock. Smaller finds included the first Western Yellow Centipede Stigmatogaster subterranea for the Recording Area, one of the UK's longest species at over 70mm. 

Western Yellow Centipede Stigmatogaster subterranea - Kevin Rylands

Also under dead wood the rove beetle Paederus littoralis with the first Common Bluebottle Calliphora vicina of the year on the wing along with the grass fly Eutropha fulvifrons and the picture-winged fly Geomyza tripunctata.

Geomyza tripunctata - Alan Keatley

Paederus littoralis - Alan Keatley