Minimum counts over the afternoon high tide included 85 Oystercatcher, 75 Sanderling, 18 Black-headed Gull, 18 Dunlin, 12 Whimbrel, eight Ringed and six Grey Plover, three Turnstone and two Knot.
Elsewhere a late migrant Willow Warbler was in song in the Entrance Bushes and offshore the female Eider, 630 Herring Gull, 20 Manx Shearwater, three Sandwich Tern and a Great Crested Grebe.
Other Wildlife: Overnight mothing produced over 100 different species to light, including three new for Recording Area, Channel Islands Pug, Poplar Kitten and Spotted Shoot Moth Rhyacionia pinivorana. The latter was most likely a migrant, the others likely breeding onsite.
Other migrants included 50+ Diamond-back, 30 Small Mottled Willow and single Rush Veneer, Rusty-dot Pearl, Silver Y and Dark Sword-grass.
Local specialities included White Colon, Sandhill Knot-horn Anerastia lotella and Yellow Belle, with others such as Lime Hawkmoth, Mocha and Marbled Coronet rarely recorded on site.
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| Mocha - Kevin Rylands |
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| Lime Hawkmoth - Kevin Rylands |
A range of other taxa were also attracted to the lights, including several Cockchafer, a Hornet and two new beetles for the Warren, a rove beetle Deleaster dichrous and a hide beetle Trox scaber.
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