Monday, 13 January 2025

Monday 13th January

An afternoon low tide tide visit so little to report from the estuary, with nine Great Crested Grebe and a Great Northern Diver offshore.

The bushes were relatively quiet, just 12 Long-tailed Tit and a couple of Siskin with two female Shoveler on the Main Pond.

Other Wildlife: The first Buff-tailed Bumblebee was a now expected sight at this time of year on the ornamental Hebe.

Buff-tailed Bumblebee - Alan Keatley

Other insects were not as obvious, on the beach the strandline Oarweed Fly Heterocheila baccata and under a log by the Main Pond, a Grey Arches caterpillar and the rove beetle Xantholinus longiventris.

Oarweed Fly Heterocheila baccata - Alan Keatley

Grey Arches - Alan Keatley

Xantholinus longiventris - Alan Keatley

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