Tuesday 12th August

Continuing evidence of migration over both high tides with peak counts of 236 Redshank, 140 Ringed Plover, 92 Sandwich and 28 Common Tern, 59 Dunlin, 54 Whimbrel, 25 Sanderling, 11 Mediterranean Gull including 10 juveniles, 10 Greenshank, five Bar-tailed Godwit, four Turnstone, three Grey Plover and two summer plumaged Knot. 

Knot, Grey Plover & Black-headed Gull - Mark Bailey

Elsewhere 40 Manx and five Balearic Shearwater were offshore in the evening and a Buzzard was in Dead Dolphin Wood. 

Other Wildlife: Hot continental weather, with heatwave conditions, drifted migratory insects into the Recording Area with three Clouded Yellow, including a pale helice type alongside a Painted Lady in Greenland Lake, at least a dozen Rush Veneer around the site and several Migrant Hawker at the Main Pond. 

Clouded Yellow - Mark Bailey

On Common Fleabane in the flower meadows were Dark Fleabane Neb Apodia martinii and Straw-barred Pearl Pyrausta despicata.

Dark Fleabane Neb Apodia martinii - Alan Keatley

Straw- barred Pearl Pyrausta despicata - Alan Keatley

In more sheltered areas were two new diptera for the Warren, the hoverfly Lesser Bulbfly Eumerus funeralis and the lauxaniidae fly Minettia longipennis.

Minettia longipennis - Alan Keatley

Lesser Bulbfly Eumerus funeralis - Alan Keatley

Other insects noted were the bugs Compsidolon salicellum, Lined Spittlebug Neophilaenus lineatus and a Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly Sericomyia silentis.

Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly Sericomyia silentis - Alan Keatley