With just four Chiffchaff the bushes were relatively quiet, although a showy Snipe was on the Main Pond. The bird surprise was a single flock of 65 Siskin calling and heading NE over the ridge and Bight, with a single Swallow also heading NE along the spit.
Snipe - Alan Keatley
Counts from the high tide included 305 Curlew, 54 Dunlin, 31 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 24 Knot, 19 Bar-tailed Godwit, 16 Ringed and 10 Grey Plover, 15 Shelduck, two Sanderling, a Sandwich Tern and a Whimbrel.
Elsewhere the flock of 10 Eider were offshore with six Common Scoter.
Other Wildlife: A gorse weevil Andrion regensteinense was found on the Golf Course, a common species that has up to now eluded the Warren list. Also noted today a Common Lizard at Langstone Rock, a minute scavenger beetle Cartodere bifasciatus around the Bight and on the beach, the ground bug Scolopostethus affinis.
Andrion regensteinense - Alan Keatley 
Cartodere bifasciatus - Alan Keatley 
Scolopostethus affinis - Alan Keatley
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