Thursday 16th July

Counts from the estuary included 150+ Sandwich Tern with a minimum of 34 juveniles, 100+ Mediterranean Gull, 117 Redshank, 39 Dunlin, 19 Sanderling, five Greenshank, two Grey and a Ringed Plover, two Common Tern and a Turnstone.

Sandwich Tern - Jim Summers

Common Tern  - Jim Summers

Elsewhere the Red-legged Partridge was around The Bight, the Eider was offshore and the Coot and Kingfisher were at the Main Pond. 

Coot - Dean Hall

Ringing News: Amongst the mix of ringed Mediterranean Gull and Sandwich Tern, a Lithuanian ringed Black-headed Gull was the stand out recovery. 

Black-headed Gull - Jim Summers

Other Wildlife: The flower meadows held a varied selection of insects, with at least four Clouded Yellow amongst the various butterflies and day flying moths included a Hummingbird Hawkmoth and a Jersey Tiger. 

Clouded Yellow - Alan Keatley

Jersey Tiger - Dean Hall

Nectaring in the flower meadows a Small Beegrabber Thecophora atra and it's host, Green Furrow Bee Lasioglossum morio, many Bare-saddled Colletes C. similis, a Pantaloon Bee Dasypoda hirtipes, Large Shield Wasp Crabro cribrarius and several Common Yellow-faced Bee Hylaeus communis.

Small Beegrabber Thecophora atra - Alan Keatley

Large Shield Wasp Crabro cribrarius - Alan Keatley

Hoverflies were represented by Dark-winged Wrinklehead Chrysogaster solstitialis and Many-tufted Sedgesitter Platycheirus scutatus as well as several migrant Compost Hoverfly Syritta pipiens. On vegetation a mating pair of Brassica Shieldbug Eurydema oleracea, two Grey Seal were on Bull Hill and a Compass Jellyfish stranded on the beach.

Brassica Shieldbug Eurydema oleracea - Alan Keatley

Dark-winged Wrinklehead Chrysogaster solstitialis - Alan Keatley

Compass Jellyfish - James Marshall