Mirror calm conditions offshore this evening again allowed a count of roosting divers with at least 25 Great Northern Diver present, mostly in breeding plumage and distant. Also present seven Common Scoter, five Manx Shearwater, three Sandwich Tern, a Great Crested Grebe and the immature male Eider.
Counts from the estuary over the evening tide included 54 Whimbrel, 41 Bar-tailed Godwit, 16 Dunlin, four Sanderling and single Greenshank, Grey Plover and a very late Snipe.
The only noticeable passerine migrants were two Sedge Warbler, one singing in scrub by the railway footbridge and a Wheatear in Greenland Lake.
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| Wheatear - Alan Keatley |
Other Wildlife: Increasing activity and variety amongst the insects, with Dark-edged Beefly and Early Bumblebee and the first Green Longhorn Adela reaumurella of the year around the Entrance Bushes. Other day-flying moths included increasing numbers of Grey Gorse Piercer Cydia ulicetana, Wood-rush Casebearer Coleophora otidipennella and Swan-feather Dwarf Elachista argentella on the wing.
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| Early Bumblebee - Alan Keatley |
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| Swan-feather Dwarf Elachista argentella - Alan Keatley |
Other new emergences for the year included the dagger fly Empis tessellata, the anthomyiidae fly Hydrophoria lancifer and a willow gall weevil Archarius salicivorus.
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| Archarius salicivorus - Alan Keatley |
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| Empis tessellata - Alan Keatley |
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