Counts from the estuary included 249 Redshank, 73 Sandwich Tern, 30 Ringed Plover, 28 Teal, 10 Greenshank, six Dunlin, four Bar-tailed Godwit, four Knot and a Kingfisher.
Knot - Dave Jewell 
Ringed Plover - Dave Jewell
Elsewhere the immature male Eider was off Langstone Rock with 17 Swallow through with eight Chiffchaff, three Blackcap and single Buzzard and Great Spotted Woodpecker on site.
Other Wildlife: Avoiding the showers were ten species of butterfly including Peacock, Wall Brown, four Painted Lady and a Clouded Yellow. Other migrants included several dozen Rush Veneer and at least five Locust Blowfly Stomorhina lunata.
Also on the wing the shieldbug tachinid Ectophasia crassipennis, the spider hunting wasp Anoplius infuscatus, Field Digger Wasp Mellinus arvensis and numerous hoverflies including Plain-faced Dronefly Eristalis arbustorum and Two-banded Spearhorn Chrysotoxum bicinctum.
Field Digger Wasp Mellinus arvensis - Alan Keatley
A variety of other records included Nut-tree Tussock caterpillar, the introduced harvestman Opilio canestrinii and increasing numbers of Ivy Bee and Hornet.
Opilio canestrinii - Kevin Rylands %20130925.JPG)
Nut-tree Tussock - Alan Keatley
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