A brick red Curlew Sandpiper was in The Bight over the evening high tide, only the second spring record since 2017 after a bird last year. Competing in looks if not rarity a red Knot was also a new arrival, with counts including 26 Sanderling, 17 Whimbrel, eight Dunlin, three Bar-tailed Godwit, three Ringed Plover and a Turnstone.
Offshore 18 Manx Shearwater, 14 Great Northern Diver, 12 in breeding plumage, an Eider and a 2cy Mediterranean Gull.
Other Wildlife: A good start to the day with a new beetle for the Recording Area found on the brick wall by the railway station, an Ivy-boring Beetle Ochina ptinoides.
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| Ivy-boring Beetle Ochina ptinoides - Alan Keatley |
Wasps were well represented in the summer conditions with Red-legged Spider Wasp Episyron rufipes, Four-spotted Digger Wasp Crossocerus quadrimaculatus, Mournful Wasp Pemphredon lugubris, Common Spiny Digger Wasp Oxbelus uniglumis and Small Shieldbug Stalker Dryudella pinguis, all recorded for the first time this year.
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| Red-legged Spider Wasp Episyron rufipes - Alan Keatley |
Bees included a Large Sharp-tailed Bee Coelioxys conoidea searching out Sandpit Mining Bee nests in Greenland Lake and Catsear Mining Bee Andrena humilis, digging a nest hole on the Back Path and collecting pollen near Langstone Rock.
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| Catsear Mining Bee Andrena humilis - Alan Keatley |
The first two Brown Argus of the year were on the wing as were several Broad-bodied Chaser, with ovipositing observed on the Main Pond, and a Hairy Dragonfly in the Entrance Bushes. Five Common Dolphin were offshore early morning with at least one still present in the evening.
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| Broad-bodied Chaser - Alan Keatley |
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| Wasp Beetle - Alan Keatley |
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