Counts from the estuary included 250 Dunlin, 70 Ringed and four Grey Plover, 43 Mute Swan, 40 Bar and a Black-tailed Godwit, 18 Knot, eight Greenshank, four Sandwich Tern, three Brent Geese and two Whimbrel.
Elsewhere 16 Sanderling were on the beach, including the Norwegian ringed bird, and passerine migrants were limited to seven Chiffchaff, five Blackcap and two Wheatear.
Wildlife News: A single Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly Sericomyia silentis was around the Crocus Compound, the third site record, and a Clouded Yellow was on Warren Point.
Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly - Alan Keatley
Several Garden Petunia Petunia x hybrida were flowering near the Go-Karts, a presumed further escape from planting adjacent to the SAC.
Garden Petunia - Alan Keatley
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