A single Curlew Sandpiper was in The Bight over high tide with 43 Sanderling, 39 Ringed Plover, 15 Dunlin, nine Grey Plover, eight Turnstone, eight Whimbrel and two Knot also in the estuary.
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| Curlew Sandpiper - both Lee Collins |
Elsewhere the first fledged House Sparrow and Linnet were on site and 40 Manx Shearwater were offshore along with eight Sandwich Tern, 12 Black-headed, a Common and a 2CY Mediterranean Gull.
Ringing News: A Dunlin colour-ringed in Spain was in The Bight, details awaited.
Dunlin & Curlew Sandpiper - Lee Collins
Other Wildlife: A good selection of insects today with solitary wasps becoming more evident including new for the year White-lipped Digger Wasp Lindenius albilabris in the Entrance Bushes and the nationally scarce Silver Spiny Digger Wasp Oxybelus argentatus on the Back Path.
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| White-lipped Digger Wasp Lindenius albilabris - Alan Keatley |
The Hemlock Water-dropwort continued to attract nectaring insects including Figwort Blacklet Cheilosia variabilis and Glowing Cuckoo Wasp Hedychridium ardens, plus a hunting Common Awl Robberfly Neoitamus cyanurus.
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| Figwort Blacklet Cheilosia variabilis - Alan Keatley |
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| Glowing Cuckoo Wasp Hedychridium ardens - Alan Keatley |
Most notably an increasing emergence of Broad-bodied Chaser with at least 18, with only a couple of blue males. Also on the wing various butterflies including the now less than annual Small Tortoiseshell as well as several Painted Lady and Red Admiral. Also emerging several Silvery Leafcutter Bee Megachile leachella near the Dune Pond.
A small patch of Yellow Loosestrife by the Crocus Compound was a new plant for the Recording Area, whilst nearby a rarely encountered and quick moving Water Shrew was near the Main Pond.
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