Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Wednesday 24th January

A generally quiet middle of the day visit saw a Great Northern Diver off Langstone Rock with 27 Dark-bellied Brent Geese feeding there at low tide with another 66 on the estuary mudflats. 

Two Goldcrest were noted in the bushes with three Shoveler on the Main Pond. 

Goldcrest - Alan Keatley

Other Wildlife: Insects were also keeping their heads down despite the warming conditions, the cranefly Symplecta stictica was on the wing, but other discoveries were under wood including Blue Willow Beetle Phratora vulgatissima, Common Earwig and a few Greenhouse Slug Ambigolmax valentianus.

Symplecta stictica - Alan Keatley

Greenhouse Slug Ambigolmax valentianus - Alan Keatley

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