Monday 4th August

The long tail of Storm Floris saw a few seabirds pushed into the bay, including the first Storm Petrel of the year south during a 3.5 hrs seawatch at 8am, with a second at 11.20. Also passing south 15 Balearic Shearwater, c20 Common Tern, three Fulmar, three Common Scoter and a Great Northern Diver. 

Year list addition: 
159. Storm Petrel

Other Wildlife: Despite the blustery conditions there were a good selection of insects to be found in sheltered spots, including two more firsts for the Recording Area. These were the tachinid Striped-backed Phasia P. obesa found near the Dune Pond and the ant Temnothorax nylanderi on fencing by the Station path.

Striped-backed Phasia P. obesa - Alan Keatley

Also of note, Pale-footed Black Wasp Psenulus palipes and the moths Common Purple and Gold Pyrausta purpuralis and several Rush Veneer. 

Pale-footed Black Wasp Psenulus palipes - Alan Keatley

Rush Veneer - Alan Keatley

Common Purple and Gold Pyrausta purpuralis - Alan Keatley

Elsewhere the hoverflies Variable Spearhorn Chrysotoxum elegans and Parsley Blacklet Cheilosia pagana in Greenland Lake and offshore three Common Dolphin and a Harbour Porpoise. 

Variable Spearhorn Chrysotoxum elegans - Alan Keatley