Friday, 12 July 2024

Friday 12th July

The first juvenile Yellow-legged Gull of the year was in the estuary with 171 Black-headed and 20+ Mediterranean Gull, a minimum of 112 Sandwich Tern, at least 39 juveniles, the six Eider and a lone Common Tern.

Wader counts over the high tide included 260 Curlew, 80 Redshank, 23 Dunlin, 16 Whimbrel, six Greenshank, five Ringed Plover, two Bar-tailed Godwit and a Sanderling

Elsewhere a Coal Tit was in Dead Dolphin Wood and offshore 17 Common Scoter, six Great Northern Diver and four Great Crested Grebe.

Other Wildlife: A newly independent Fox cub was around the Bight with the soldierfly Flecked Snout Nemotelus notatus on the Dune Ridge. 

Fox - Lee Collins

Flecked Snout Nemotelus notatus - Lee Collins

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