A large increase in Mediterranean Gull saw a minimum count of 62 birds around the site, with many feeding offshore with 400 Herring and the 5CY Yellow-legged Gull. Also offshore at least 50 Manx Shearwater and the female Eider.
Wader counts from high tide in the estuary included 175 Curlew, 22 Redshank, 14 Whimbrel, two Bar-tailed Godwit, two Grey and a Ringed Plover. Elsewhere 20 Sand and 15 House Martin and nine Swift were overhead, a fledged family of Swallow were feeding over the saltmarsh and the Red-legged Partridge was in The Bight.
Ringing News: Four colour-ringed Mediterranean Gull were noted from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Slovenia, the first Warren recovery from the country. Further metal ringed birds were from Hungary and France.
Mediterranean Gull - Lee Collins
Other Wildlife: A fresh pleasant morning after the heat of the last few days. Good numbers of flying insects with 12 butterfly species and several Odonata including a mating pair of Black-tailed Skimmer and at least four Red-eyed Damselfly at the Main Pond.
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| Comma - James Marshall |
In more vegetated areas, the leaf beetle Cryptocephalus pusillus, a few Red Poplar Leaf Beetle Chrysomela populi, the flies Opomyza petersi and Exorista rustica, a sawfly tachinid, a Nettle Leafhopper Eupteryx urticae and the day flying moths Satin Grass-veneer Crambus perlella and Orange-spot Yarrow Moth Dichrorampha vancouverana.
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| Cryptocephalus pusillus - Alan Keatley |
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| Opomyza petersi - Alan Keatley |
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| Red Poplar Leaf Beetle Chrysomela populi - Alan Keatley |
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| Orange-spot Yarrow Moth Dichrorampha vancouverana - Alan Keatley |
Elsewhere more Beewolf wasps and the ant Formica cunicularia were on the hunt and a bull Grey Seal was in the estuary.
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| Beewolf - Alan Keatley |
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