Seawatching for the first two hours of light saw at least 20 Balearic Shearwater head south with many more distant Manx/Balearic Shearwater, 17 Storm Petrel, c60 Common and 26 Sandwich Tern, eight Sand Martin, five Arctic and a Pomarine Skua, two Sanderling, a Great Northern Diver and a Whimbrel.
Elsewhere counts from The Bight at high tide included 69 Sandwich and five Common Tern, 59 Great Black-backed Gull seeking shelter on Finger Point, 58 Ringed Plover, eight Dunlin and two Sanderling.
Other Wildlife: The wind also blew beetles on to the beach including several Dune Scarab Aegialia arenarius and a saltmarsh mud beetle Heterocerus fossor.
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| Dune Scarab Aegialia arenarius - Alan Keatley |
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| Heterocerus fossor - Alan Keatley |
Migrants butterflies continue to appear with single Clouded Yellow and four Painted Lady in Greenland Lake, along with a Southern Hawker and the green leafhopper Cicidella viridis.
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| Southern Hawker - Alan Keatley |
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| Cicidella viridis - Alan Keatley |
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