A singing male Blackcap and a female Wheatear were new arrivals, with at least 60 Linnet on site also likely to include migrants. A Meadow Pipit displaying on Warren Point may have also been a migrant, but hopefully will be the first to hold territory since 2013.
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| Wheatear - Dean Hall |
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| Blackcap - Dean Hall |
Counts over the evening high tide in addition to the Oystercatcher and Curlew, included 46 Dark and three Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 42 Turnstone, 16 Sanderling, 10 Teal, nine Grey and three Ringed Plover, eight Greenshank, three Dunlin, two Red-breasted Merganser and a Knot.
Offshore there were 14 Great Crested Grebe, 10 Sandwich Tern, six Eider (three female & three male (two ad)), six Great Northern and a Red-throated Diver.
Other Wildlife: Warm but few insects in the cloudy conditions, although a Peacock was on the wing along with Hairy-footed Flower Bee Anthophora plumipes, Early Bumblebee, a few Tapered Dronefly, a Marmalade Hoverfly and a Grey-spotted Boxer.
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| Hairy-footed Flower Bee Anthophora plumipes - Alan Keatley |
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| Early Bumblebee - Kevin Rylands |
Also recorded a Grey Squirrel around the Entrance Bushes, the strandline beetle Broscus cephalotes around The Bight, the first Striped Ommatoiulus sabulosus and White-legged Snake Millipede Tachypodoiulus niger of the year and new for the Warren the white blister rust Albugo hohenheimia on Hairy Bittercress and the cellar spider Psilochorus simoni in a golf course shed.
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| Striped Millipede Ommatoiulus sabulosus - Alan Keatley |
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| Broscus cephalotes - Alan Keatley |
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| Amara tibialis - Alan Keatley |
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| Albugo hohenheimia - Kevin Rylands |
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