Monday 19th May

The Curlew Sandpiper was reported over the high tide, with 16 Sanderling and six Dunlin still in The Bight at low tide.

Offshore 34 Manx Shearwater, five Common Scoter, two Great Northern Diver and single Eider and Sandwich Tern. 

Other Wildlife: It was another good day for insects with Hymenoptera well represented, bees included White-zoned Furrow Bee Lasioglossum leucozonium, Green-eyed Flower Bee Anthophora bimaculata and Silvery Leafcutter; with the solitary wasps Red-banded Grasshopper Grabber Tachysphex pompiliformis and the ruby-tailed wasp Chrysis ignita and the first Alder Sawfly Eriocampa ovata all on the wing.

Green-eyed Flower Bee Anthophora bimaculata - Alan Keatley

White-zoned Furrow Bee Lasioglossum leucozonium - Alan Keatley

Alder Sawfly Eriocampa ovata - Alan Keatley

New hoverfly emergences were also to the fore, including the first Banded Meliscaeva M. cinctella for the Recording Area, along with Striped-backer Glimmer Riponnensia splendens, Common Pipiza P. noctiluca, Bumblebee Blacklet Cheilosia illustrata and Bumblebee Plumehorn Volucella bombylans.

Striped-backer Glimmer Riponnensia splendens - Alan Keatley

 Ferruginous Fly-grabber Sicus ferrugineus - Alan Keatley