Counts from the estuary included 230 Sandwich Tern, including 73 juveniles, 159 Redshank, 30 Sanderling, 28 Dunlin, 26 Mediterranean Gull, 24 Ringed Plover and a Bar-tailed Godwit.
Elsewhere at least one Green Woodpecker was on the Golf Course and a Kingfisher was at the Main Pond, where the Coot remains settled.
Other Wildlife: A new species for the Recording Area was on the Dune Ridge, a thread-legged assassin bug Empicoris vagabundus, the most widespread of the three UK species.
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| Empicoris vagabundus - Alan Keatley |
The nationally scarce Golden-haired Longhorn Leptura aurulenta was excavating in a tree stump by the pond dipping platform, the second year of confirmed breeding. Another nationally scarce species was found amongst at least twenty Bee-wolf on Fennel around the car park, a female Heath Potter Wasp Eumenes coarctatus.
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| Golden-haired Longhorn Leptura aurulenta - Alan Keatley |
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| Heath Potter Wasp Eumenes coarctatus - Alan Keatley |
In a poor season so far for hoverflies, the summer generation of Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax and Batman Hoverfly Myathropa florea were on the wing with White-clubbed Glasswing Scaeva pyrastri and several Compost Hoverfly Syritta pipiens.
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| Batman Hoverfly Myathropa florea - Alan Keatley |
Also recorded at least 10 Clouded Yellow and five Painted Lady, a Sand Lizard on the Dune Ridge and two Grey Seal on Bull Hill.
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| Painted Lady - Alan Keatley |
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