Wednesday 17th June

Counts from the estuary included 130 Oystercatcher, 12 Sandwich and two Common Tern, eight Sanderling, two Grey Plover and two Mediterranean Gull.

Elsewhere the female Eider and 5CY Yellow-legged Gull were off groyne 10, six Raven, a family party, and two Stock Dove were on Warren Point and the Moorhen have hatched at least four young from their second attempt at the Dune Pond. 

Moorhen - Jim Summers

Other Wildlife: A search for Pyramidal Orchid was successful with one surviving the erosion at the end of Warren Point.

Pyramidal Orchid  - Alan Keatley

A male Banded Demoiselle that flew along the Dune Ridge was unexpected, just the sixth site record and the first since 7th July 2018. Also on the wing a wide range of bees and wasps including Bare-saddled Colletes C. similis and Minute Black Wasp Diodontus minutus, three Painted Lady and a Band-eyed Brown Horsefly Tabanus bromius. 

Minute Black Wasp Diodontus minutus - Alan Keatley

Bare-saddled Colletes C. similis - Alan Keatley

Band-eyed Brown Horsefly Tabanus bromius - Alan Keatley

Other species included Large Ivy Tortrix Lozotaenia forsterana, the spider Textrix denticulata and the ground beetle Nebria brevicollis.

Large Ivy Tortrix Lozotaenia forsterana - Alan Keatley

Nebria brevicollis - Alan Keatley

Textrix denticulata - Alan Keatley