Counts from the estuary included 160 Sandwich Tern, 36 Sanderling, 20 Dunlin, 18 Ringed Plover, seven Knot, five Mediterranean and a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull.
Elsewhere the female Eider was at Langstone Rock, the Coot was on the Main Pond and a Green Woodpecker on the Golf Course.
Other Wildlife: A selection of insects included the second record of the Rhopalid bug Liorhyssus hyalinus, found in the Entrance Bushes, Tawny Cockroach, Wasp Plumehorn Volucella inanis and the weevil Sibinia arenariae at Langstone Rock, the Anthomyiidae fly Hydrophoria lancifer in Dead Dolphin Wood, half a dozen Clouded Yellow and plenty of Bee-wolf on Fennel in the Car Park.
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| Liorhyssus hyalinus - Alan Keatley |
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| Bee-wolf - Alan Keatley |
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| Hydrophoria lancifer - Alan Keatley |
Moths included a site first, White-barred Groundling Recurvaria leucatella on Hawthorn by the Car Park, a Mullein Wave roosting by a security light, Mint Moth Pyrausta aurata and Six-spot Burnet in Greenland Lake and Sycamore Piercer Pammene aurita, also by the Car Park.
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| White-barred Groundling Recurvaria leucatella - Kevin Rylands |
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| Mint Moth Pyrausta aurata - Alan Keatley |
Leaf miners included Three-spot Dot Stigmella trimaculella and Poplar Maze-miner Phyllocnistis unipunctella on Lombardy Poplar, Beautiful Sycamore Dot Stigmella speciosa and Dogwood Cutter Antispila petryi.
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| Three-spot Dot Stigmella trimaculella - Kevin Rylands |
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| Poplar Maze-miner Phyllocnistis unipunctella - Kevin Rylands |
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| Beautiful Sycamore Dot Stigmella speciosa - Kevin Rylands |
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| Dogwood Cutter Antispila petryi - Kevin Rylands |
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