A total of 62 Sandwich Tern (17 juveniles) were present on the dropping morning tide, but only 30 were present in the evening, when they were joined by four Common Tern, two adults and the first two juveniles.
Also around the estuary on both tides max counts of 15 Mediterranean Gull, 11 Dunlin, eight Whimbrel, five Bar-tailed Godwit, two Greenshank, two Little Ringed, two Ringed and a Grey Plover.
Elsewhere 10 Common Scoter and three Great Crested Grebe were offshore.
Other Wildlife: The hot temperature meant it wasn't just the birds that were quiet in the woods, however, some insects were active in the heat with nectaring bees, wasps and butterflies. Butterflies included Red Admiral, Peacock and Comma on nettles, with Meadow Brown, Small Skipper and Common Blue searching for larval food plants in the decidedly brown grassland.
On the umbellifers near the fire site was a recently emerged male Geoffroy's Blood Bee Sphecodes geoffrellus, one of the smallest blood bees, a cleptoparasite of Lasioglossum bees, with several Red-sided Eriothrix E. rufomaculatus on Ragwort and Small Red-eyed Damselfly were active on the Main Pond.
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| Geoffroy's Blood Bee Sphecodes geoffrellus - Alan Keatley |
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| Small Red-eyed Damselfly - Alan Keatley |
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| Red-sided Eriothrix E. rufomaculatus - Alan Keatley |
New for the year, on its foodplant, was a female Rose Curl Sawfly Allanus cinctus.
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| Rose Curl Sawfly Allanus cinctus - Alan Keatley |
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