Migrants included four Golden Plover that dropped in to land on Warren Point, with a Swallow and a flock of 17 Siskin over NE and seven Chiffchaff, three Goldcrest and a Wheatear on site.
Counts from the estuary over high tide included 336 Curlew, 90 Dunlin, 42 Knot, 21 Bar and two Black-tailed Godwit, 20 Greenshank, 19 Ringed and 10 Grey Plover, 13 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, six Sandwich Tern, six Sanderling and a Whimbrel.
Other Wildlife: Fewer insects on the wing apart although a couple of Field Digger Wasp Mellinus arvensis were active in Skipper Meadow along with a few Migrant Hawker and Speckled Wood.
Field Digger Wasp Mellinus arvensis - Alan Keatley
Other records included an Adonis Ladybird on Warren Point and the shore bug Saldula orthochila by the geotubes.
Adonis Ladybird - Alan Keatley 
Saldula orthochila - Alan Keatley
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