Roost counts from the low high tide included 241 Oystercatcher, 189 Curlew, 25 Redshank, six Whimbrel, four Bar-tailed Godwit, two Grey Plover and the first two retuning Greenshank
Also in the estuary c70 Black-headed Gull, including the first juvenile, at least 18 Mediterranean Gull, including four juveniles and six Sandwich Tern, three juveniles.
Elsewhere just the one Gannet offshore with 32 Manx Shearwater heading south.
Ringing News: Three Warren ringed Oystercatcher were back for the winter JP, A3 & ET, all early return dates.
Other Wildlife: A warm overcast day with the threat of rain, although it largely didn't materialise, kept invertebrates in the vegetation or close to the ground. Good numbers of Gatekeeper were active when disturbed when walking past the bramble scrub.
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| Gatekeeper - Kevin Rylands |
Sitting in its distinctive web with its zigzag ladder (stabilimentum) was the first Wasp Spider of the year, an immature, found in the usual locality of Greenland Lake.
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| Wasp Spider - Alan Keatley |
The new fly for the Recording Area was in Dead Dolphin Wood, Eustalomyia festiva, a parasitic anthomyid fly, loitering close to its wasp host nest, the wood nesting Garden Ectemnius E. cavifrons.
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| Eustalomyia festiva - Alan Keatley |
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| Eustalomyia festiva and Ectemnius cavifrons - Alan Keatley |
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