No sign of the Little Stint in The Bight over the high tide amongst 62 Ringed Plover and 35 Dunlin. Also in the estuary 78 Sandwich and two Common Tern, with 35 Sanderling on the beach.
Other Wildlife: Before the afternoon showers there was a good selection of hoverflies on the wing including, In the flower meadows, a showy Wasp Plumehorn Volucella inanis, and, new for the year, a Two-banded Wasp Hoverfly Chrysotoxum bicinctum. Numerous Batman Hoverfly Myathropa florea were favouring Rock Samphire at Langstone Rock.
Wasp Plumehorn Volucella inanis - Alan Keatley
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| Two-banded Wasp Hoverfly Chrysotoxum bicinctum - Alan Keatley |
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| Batman Hoverfly Myathropa florea - Alan Keatley |
Other species included Stripe-backed Fleckwing Dasysyrphus albostriatus, many Common Twist-tail Sphaerophoria scripta, several Compost Hoverfly Syritta pipiens, Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax and a Stripe-faced Dronefly E. nemorum.
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| Stripe-backed Fleckwing Dasysyrphus albostriatus - Alan Keatley |
More unexpected a Bloody-nosed Beetle was along the railway wall and a Water Shrew ran onto The Bight and meandered through the glasswort, presumably looking for food, maybe that's what they sometimes do, but not in broad daylight!
Water Shrew - Alan Keatley %20310725.JPG)
Bloody-nosed Beetle - Alan Keatley
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