The Sun made its first appearance of the month, bringing with it a smart male Black Redstart, actively flycatching around the sea defence boulders by the railway footbridge. The first redstart of any kind this year.
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| Black Redstart - both Alan Keatley |
Elsewhere 450 Dunlin, 145 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 34 Ringed and four Grey Plover, 13 Bar-tailed Godwit and five Sanderling were in the estuary with three Chiffchaff and a Coal Tit in the bushes and a couple of Water Rail squealing from the Main Pond.
Year list addition:
182. Black Redstart
Other Wildlife: The arrival of sunshine saw a few more active insects today with several Honey Bee and Buff-tailed Bumblebee on flowering Gorse. Warming up on the wooden rail in Skipper Meadow, a Red Admiral and the muscid fly Phaonia tuguriorum.
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Phaonia tuguriorum - Alan Keatley
On the beach, a couple of Hypocassus dimidiatus clown beetle were below the geotubes.
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| Hypocassus dimidiatus - Alan Keatley |
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