Spring migration appears paused with little change, the five Tufted Duck, a pair of Teal and at least four Chiffchaff still around the Main Pond and usual waders around The Bight at high tide.
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| Tufted Duck - Dean Hall |
Counts from the estuary included 145 Curlew, 142 Dunlin, 60 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 26 Turnstone, 17 Sanderling, 16 Grey Plover and a Bar-tailed Godwit, with three Eider and a Red-breasted Merganser offshore.
Other Wildlife: Single Common Lizard and Palmate Newt were still in their favoured sheltered locations. Some change with insects though with the first sawfly of spring, the bedstraw feeding Aglaostigma aucupariae in the sheltered Entrance Bushes.
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| Aglaostigma aucupariae - Alan Keatley |
In contrast the beach was sandblasted in the strong easterly with several beetles struggling in the wind and loose sand, including a Strawberry Root Weevil Otiorhynchus ovatus. In more vegetated areas the Ribwort Plantain feeding weevil Trichosirocalus troglodytes and new for the Warren, the groundbug Cymus glandicolor.
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| Strawberry Root Weevil Otiorhynchus ovatus - Alan Keatley |
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| Cymus glandicolor - Alan Keatley |
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