Quiet away from the estuary where counts over the high tide included 167 Ringed Plover, 71 Common and 45 Sandwich Tern, c50 Dunlin, 32 Mute Swan, eight Greenshank, six Mediterranean Gull, six Sanderling, three Turnstone and two Knot.
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| Common Tern - Alan Keatley |
Other Wildlife: An ant mimic wasp, the tiny and rarely recorded Gonatopus clavipes was the pick of today's insects. Females are wingless and its larvae is a parasitoid of leafhoppers. Favours areas of sand with Marram, but easily mistaken for a quick moving ant.
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| Gonatopus clavipes - Alan Keatley |
A queen Woodland Red Ant Myrmica ruginodis was in Dead Dolphin Wood, with Common Lasioglossum calceatum and White-zoned Furrow Bee L. leucozonium, Pied Volucella pellucens and Hornet Plumehorn V. zonaria and two Locust Blowfly Stomorhina lunata nectaring on Water Mint.
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| Woodland Red Ant Myrmica ruginodis - Alan Keatley |
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| Hornet Plumehorn Volucella zonaria - Alan Keatley |
Flies elsewhere included Spotty-eyed Dronefly Eristalinus sepulchralis amongst at least eight other hoverfly species in Greenland Lake, a Knapweed Ghost Acanthiophilus helianthi on the estuary bank, and the large tachnid fly Eurithis anthophila on Rock Samphire at Langstone Rock.
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| Spotty-eyed Dronefly Eristalinus sepulchralis - Alan Keatley |
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| Eurithis anthophila - Alan Keatley |
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