With no news from high tide, a low tide visit saw 20+ Great Crested Grebe, four Eider and a Great Northern Diver were offshore, a Pale-bellied Brent Goose was on Bull Hill and 18 Dark-bellied Brent Geese and nine Turnstone were at Langstone Rock.
Elsewhere two migrant Chiffchaff were flycatching from the sallows, a pair of Shoveler were on the Main Pond and Long-tailed Tit were nest building along the Back Path.
Other Wildlife: A cooling wind limited activity around the Alexanders but Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax increased in numbers alongside Common Dronefly E. tenax and Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus.
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| Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax - Alan Keatley |
A new beetle for the Recording Area was found along the beach, Cercyon unipunctatus, a widespread water scavenger beetle. Also below the geotubes, the clown beetle Hypocaccus dimidiatus, 16-spot Ladybird Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata, Red Marsh Ladybird Coccidula rufa, the darkling beetle Phaleria cadaverina and Dune Scarab Aegialia arenaria.
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| Cercyon unipunctatus - Alan Keatley |
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| Phaleria cadaverina - Alan Keatley |
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| Collared Earthstar Geastrum triplex - Kevin Rylands |
