Counts over the morning tide110 Sandwich and seven Common Tern, c30 Mediterranean and a 1cy Yellow-legged Gull. Wader numbers included 37 Whimbrel, 16 Dunlin, five Bar and four Black-tailed Godwit, three Ringed Plover and three Sanderling.
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| Common Tern 3cy - Lee Collins |
The only passerine migrants were a Sedge Warbler and a Budgerigar that visited the Bight on the dropping tide, the first since a vismig bird in Oct 2017.
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| Budgerigar - Lee Collins |
Other Wildlife: A female Grey Seal roosted on Finger Point and a Bottle-nosed Dolphin was offshore.
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| Grey Seal - Mark Bailey |
Despite the overcast conditions a couple of new insects for Recording Area were amongst those on the wing. The first was a soft-winged flower beetle Dasytes aeratus, a common widespread species, in Skipper Meadow.
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| Dasytes aeratus - Alan Keatley |
The second new species was a small dagger fly, Empis scutellata found in Dead Dolphin Wood.
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| Empis scutellata - Alan Keatley |
New emergences included the lauxaniidae fly Homoneura notata, Green Leafhopper Cicadella viridis and a Long-faced Furrow-bee Lasioglossum punctatissimum.
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| Homoneura notata - Alan Keatley |
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Long-faced Furrow-bee Lasioglossum punctatissimum - Alan Keatley |
Other notable insects were a Brown Argus in Greenland Lake and two Median Wasp Dolichovespula media gathering nest material from the new fencing by the Station.
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| Median Wasp Dolichovespula media - Alan Keatley |
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