Flat conditions offshore saw at 340 Manx Shearwater feeding offshore, mostly far out in the bay, with five Great Northern Diver, four in breeding plumage, on the sea.
Elsewhere at least 26 Mediterranean Gull and four Sandwich Tern were on Pole Sands on the incoming tide.
Other Wildlife: Insects were still active in the late afternoon sun with butterflies including freshly emerged Comma, Green-veined White, Red Admiral and Small Copper.
Red Admiral - Kevin Rylands
Also on the wing Tree Bumblebee and its mimic hoverfly Bumblebee Plumehorn in Dead Dolphin Wood and Common Spiny Digger Wasp Oxybelus uniglumis and Three-banded Mason-wasp Ancistrocerus trifasciatus in the Entrance Bushes.
Elsewhere two new species for the Recording Area were discovered, larva of the birch feeding sawfly Nematus septentrionalis in Dead Dolphin Wood and a Welsh Chafer Hoplia philanthus in the Buffer Zone, a young Common Frog was in Greenland Lake and two Bottle-nosed Dolphin were offshore this evening.
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| Welsh Chafer Hoplia philanthus - Kevin Rylands |
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| Nematus septentrionalis - Kevin Rylands |
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| Common Frog - Kevin Rylands |
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