Wednesday 10th June

Again there wasn't a single wader in The Bight on the neap afternoon tide, with 10 Sandwich Tern on Bull Hill and a Whimbrel on Pole Sands present at low tide. 

Offshore the Eider and Great Northern Diver were off Langstone Rock, and elsewhere a Red-legged Partridge was on the Golf Course, a Sparrowhawk was pursuing a Linnet across The Bight and the first fledged Reed Warbler were being fed in Greenland Lake.

Other Wildlife: Luckily no showers interrupted nectaring insects including a Fork-tailed Flower Bee Anthophora furcata on Lamb's-ear.  Further additions to the numbers of digger wasps included Slender Bodied Digger Wasp Crabro cribrarius and Pale-footed Black Wasp Psenulus pallipes. 

Fork-tailed Flower Bee Anthophora furcata - Alan Keatley

Pale-footed Black Wasp Psenulus pallipes - Alan Keatley

Slender Bodied Digger Wasp Crabro cribrarius - Alan Keatley

Also active the jumping spider Ballus chalybeius and a Dark-winged Woodlouse Fly Melanophora roralis near the station.

 Ballus chalybeius - Alan Keatley

Dark-winged Woodlouse Fly Melanophora roralis - Alan Keatley