The strong easterlies delivered the first Black Tern of the year, a juvenile, to the estuary before heading out to sea with four Ruff and 436 Ringed Plover also notable. Autumn of peaks of 400+ were a regular feature until 2012 but this is the first since 476 on 23rd August 2015.
Other wader counts from the estuary on WeBS day were 881 Oystercatcher, 248 Redshank, 144 Dunlin, 50 Curlew, 37 Sanderling,13 Whimbrel, nine Greenshank, eight Turnstone, four Bar and a Black-tailed Godwit, three Knot and a Common Sandpiper.
Also in the estuary an adult and a juvenile Little Tern, 98 Common and 80 Sandwich Tern, 12 Mediterranean Gull and a juvenile Kittiwake.
Elsewhere 10 Common Scoter, two Manx and a Balearic Shearwater were offshore, 36 House and nine Sand Martin were overhead and three Wheatear and two Yellow Wagtail were around The Bight.
Year list addition:
161. Black Tern
Other Wildlife: Two new species for the Recording Area were discovered when removing the invasive non-native Guernsey Fleabane; the occupied leafmines of Fiery Crest Chrysoesthia drurella on Fat-hen, just the fourth Devon record, and a single plant of the similarly invasive Canadian Fleabane.
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| Fiery Crest Chrysoesthia drurella - Kevin Rylands |
The wind however kept many insects low to the ground although the scarce picture-winged fly Campiglossa plantaginis was found on its foodplant, Sea-aster, in the saltmarsh.
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| Campiglossa plantaginis - Kevin Rylands |
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