Monday 29th June

A low tide visit so few birds in the estuary although about 25 Redshank were in Shutterton Creek with a pair of Stock Dove in the Railway Saltmarsh. Amongst the usual birds around the ponds and the bushes, with a young Sparrowhawk calling from the Entrance Bushes, young Moorhen still at the Dune Pond and a very protective hen Pheasant was guarding at least seven small chicks in the Back Meadow.

Other Wildlife: Fewer flying insects today in generally overcast conditions with just six butterfly and two Odonata species, although a hyperactive Hummingbird Hawkmoth and a flighty Wasp Plumehorn Volucella inanis were in Dead Dolphin Wood.

Of a more sedentary nature the plant bug Leptopterna dolabrata and flower bug Anthocoris nemoralis, a Fig Leaf Skeletoniser Choreutis nemorana on its foodplant by the Go-karts, with a Lagria parasite fly Gastrolepta anthracina and a Spotted Bee-burglar Miltogramma punctata on nearby flowers.

Anthocoris nemoralis - Alan Keatley

Leptopterna dolabrata - Alan Keatley

Fig Leaf Skeletoniser Choreutis nemorana - Alan Keatley

Gastrolepta anthracina - Alan Keatley

Spotted Bee-burglar Miltogramma punctata - Alan Keatley