A visit to the evening tide saw a Spotted Redshank amongst the Redshank around The Bight, with counts including 970 Wigeon, 378 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 14 Greenshank, six Sanderling, five Great Crested Grebe, three Grey Plover, three Knot, three Sandwich Tern, two Mediterranean Gull and a Kingfisher.
Other Wildlife: Despite the warm sunny weather there has been a noticeable drop in insect numbers with just a few Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax, Tiger Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus and Humming Syrphus S. ribesii amongst the wasps on the flowering Ivy. Also attracted to this late season food source was the first Noon Fly Mesembrina meridiana of the year and a late Field Digger Wasp Mellinus arvensis.
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| Noon Fly Mesembrina meridiana - Alan Keatley |
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| Field Digger Wasp Mellinus arvensis - Alan Keatley |
Still on the wing five Speckled Wood, three Red Admiral, a Peacock, at least ten Common Darter and a couple of Migrant Hawker.
Two beetles were added to the annual audit, Bronze Leaf Beetle Chrysolina banksii and the first record of Catops grandicollis since 2017. Thelatter is a carrion feeding beetle associated with bird carcasses, this one was found under a dead gull on Warren Point.
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| Bronze Leaf Beetle Chrysolina banksii - Alan Keatley |
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