Counts around The Bight at high tide included 30 Sanderling, three Bar-tailed Godwit, three Whimbrel, two Grey and two Ringed Plover, two Curlew, two Dunlin and a Turnstone.
Elsewhere two Great Northern Diver were offshore with 14 Black-headed Gull, 12 Manx Shearwater, 10 Common Scoter and seven Sandwich Tern, c70 juvenile Starling were roosting in the Golf Course Pond and in the bushes juvenile Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tit have formed roaming flocks, with breeding warblers still singing in their territories and a male Reed Bunting was vocal in Greenland Lake.
Other Wildlife: A good day for day flying moths with some notable sightings including the first adult New Marsh Cosmet Cosmopterix scribaiella for Devon, Bright Neb Argolamprotes micella, Inlaid Grass-veneer Crambus pascuella and Straw Dot.
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| New Marsh Cosmet Cosmopterix scribaiella - Alan Keatley |
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| Inlaid Grass-veneer Crambus pascuella - Alan Keatley |
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| Straw Dot - Alan Keatley |
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| Bright Neb Argolamprotes micella - Alan Keatley |
Other insects included Turf Ant Tetramorium caespitum, a coastal species new to the Recording Area, Kite-tailed Robberfly Tolmerus atricapillus, the cranefly Nephrotoma flavipalpis and a mallow weevil Malvapion malvae at one of its few Devon sites.
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| Turf Ant Tetramorium caespitum - Alan Keatley |
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| Kite-tailed Robberfly Tolmerus atricapillus - Alan Keatley |
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| Nephrotoma flavipalpis - Alan Keatley |
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| Malvapion malvae - Alan Keatley |
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