A good number of passage waders around The Bight and beach on both high tides with minimum counts of 116 Sanderling, 65 Dunlin, 41 Ringed and a Grey Plover, 14 Whimbrel, eight Bar-tailed Godwit and four Turnstone.
Elsewhere 10 Great Northern Diver, five Sandwich Tern, four Manx Shearwater and the immature male Eider were offshore with at least 17 Swift over mid evening.
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| Blue Tit - Lee Collins |
Other Wildlife: The first Red-eyed Damselfly of the year were oviposting on the Main Pond, with a rain-battered Small Yellow Underwing and the cuckoo wasp Chrysis impressa in the Skipper Meadow.
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| Small Yellow Underwing - Alan Keatley |
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| Chrysis impressa - Alan Keatley |
It was a good day for longhorn beetles with three species recorded including the nationally scarce Golden-haired Longhorn (Hornet Beetle) Leptura aurulenta egg laying on a rotting log on the golf course, Black and Yellow Longhorn Rutpela maculata and Fairy-ring Longhorn Pseudovadonia livida.
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| Golden-haired Longhorn Leptura aurulenta - Lee Collins |
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| Fairy-ring Longhorn Pseudovadonia livida - Alan Keatley |
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| Black and Yellow Longhorn Rutpela maculata - Alan Keatley |
Also recorded the ground bug Megalonotus praetextatus, an early Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly Sericomyia silentis and a Painted Lady.
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| Megalonotus praetextatus - Alan Keatley |
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