A Spoonbill feeding outside Cockwood Harbour mid afternoon was the highlight with an Osprey, a Curlew Sandpiper and three Little Tern also in the estuary. Counts from the high tides included 292 Redshank, 110 Ringed Plover, 65 Sandwich and 10 Common Tern, 54+ Dunlin, 21 Sanderling, 15 Black and six Bar-tailed Godwit, 14 Greenshank, 14 Knot, 13 Teal, nine Mediterranean Gull, eight Whimbrel, four Common Sandpiper and two Wigeon.
Elsewhere 10 Common Scoter were offshore, with nine Wheatear, four Chiffchaff and two Blackcap on site.
Other Wildlife: The sunny conditions were favorable for insect migration with good numbers of Small White on the move interspersed with a few Large White and a Red Admiral. However, the pick was a male Locust Blowfly Stomorhina lunata, a true migrant with increasing frequency in late summer/autumn over recent years. Migrant hoverflies included several Large Tiger Hoverfly Helophilus trivittatus and Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus.
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| Locust Blowfly Stomorhina lunata - Alan Keatley |
Hoverflies are still frequenting the remaining Water Mint and Common Fleabane, although a Hornet Plumehorn Volucella zonaria found some early flowering Ivy while its relative a Wasp Plumehorn V. inanis was nectaring on Michaelmas Daisy, both will become the main attraction in coming weeks.
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| Wasp Plumehorn Volucella inanis - Alan Keatley |
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| Hornet Plumehorn Volucella zonaria - Alan Keatley |
Other hoverflies included Meadow Field Syrph Eupeodes latifasciatus and the droneflies, Stripe-winged Eristalis horticola, Stripe-faced E. nemorum and Common E. tenax.
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| Meadow Field Syrph Eupeodes latifasciatus - Alan Keatley |
Other records included a ragwort picture-wing fly Sphenella marginata, three Brown Argus, and in the estuary, a Grey Seal.
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| Sphenella marginata - Alan Keatley |
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| Southern Hawker - Dave Jewell |
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