The first Cetti's Warbler of the autumn was singing at the Main Pond, once a rarity this is the ninth consecutive autumn they have been recorded on site and the earliest arrival in that time. Also around the pond, single Spotted Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher and Water Rail with 14 Chiffchaff, two Blackcap and a Buzzard on site and two Siskin overhead.
Wildfowl counts from the estuary included 210 Wigeon, five Dark-bellied Brent Geese, three Shelduck, two Pintail and a Common Scoter but there was no sign of the Slavonian Grebe.
Dark-bellied Brent Geese - Dean Hall
Also in the estuary 312 Redshank, 45 Ringed Plover, 34 Dunlin, 33 Sandwich Tern, 16 Greenshank, seven Bar and a Black-tailed Godwit, three Whimbrel, two Sanderling and a Common Sandpiper, with 70 Linnet around The Bight.
Common Sandpiper - Dean Hall
Other Wildlife: The good weather continues to encourage insects with a couple of Clouded Yellow and a Red Admiral in Greenland Lake, several Migrant Hawker and Common Darter on the wing. Hoverflies include a Pale-knobbed Lucent Didea fasciata, the migrant White-clubbed Glasswing Scaeva pyrastri and good numbers of Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax and Humming Syrphus S. ribesii.
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Pale-knobbed Lucent Didea fasciata - Alan Keatley
At Langstone Rock, a new Chrysomelidae leaf beetle for the Recording Area. the bedstraw feeding Sermylassa halensis and the darkling beetle Opatrum sabulosum.
Sermylassa halensis - Alan Keatley
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| Opatrum sabulosum - Alan Keatley |
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