The first Little Tern of the year flew east past the seawall late morning with counts during the day including 130 Manx Shearwater, 40 Sandwich Tern, 11 Black-headed and a Common Gull, five Common Scoter, four Great Northern and three Red-throated Diver, two Great Crested Grebe and an Eider.
Counts from the estuary included 52 Whimbrel, 39 Bar-tailed Godwit, 20 Dunlin, 19 Sanderling, seven Grey and four Ringed Plover, two Turnstone and a Greenshank
Elsewhere the first Swift of the year flew east and the Lesser Whitethroat was still holding territory.
Year List additions:
140. Swift
139. Little Tern
Other Wildlife: With the mainly overcast conditions and lower temperatures, it wasn't a day for insects on the wing with only one butterfly noted, a Speckled Wood. Other insects trying to warm up on vegetation including a Bibio fly new for the Recording Area, a Milky-winged Feverfly Dilophus femoratus, and a Clouded Border on the Buffer Zone.
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| Milky-winged Feverfly Dilophus femoratus - Alan Keatley |
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| Clouded Border - Alan Keatley |
On the beach, the ant Myrmica ruginodis and a black dung fly Ceratinostoma ostiorum, on cultivated Elaeagnus near car park entrance, the psyllid Cacopsylla fulguralis and on sallows, the foodplant, in the Entrance Bushes the gall-causing weevil Archarius salicivorus.
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| Myrmica ruginodis - Alan Keatley |
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| Ceratinostoma ostiorum - Alan Keatley |
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| Cacopsylla fulguralis - Alan Keatley |
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| Archarius salicivorus - Alan Keatley |
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