Benign conditions were favorable for some visible migration albeit in lower numbers today, with 44 Siskin overhead, also moving 37 Skylark, with others grounded on Warren Point, 35 Goldfinch, 30 Meadow Pipit, six Swallow and two Redpoll.
Grounded migrants consisted of 14 Chiffchaff, four Goldcrest, two Blackcap and a Firecrest in the Entrance Bushes and a Wheatear on the sea wall.
A low tide visit meant the waders were scattered, 81 Turnstone were however notable, large counts here are limited as local birds roost at Starcross at high tide. Other counts included 310 Teal, 130 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 29 Knot and 19 Greenshank.
Rock Pipit - Dave Jewell
Elsewhere 24 Common Scoter and the ten Eider remain offshore.
Other Wildlife: Fewer flying insects with just one Migrant Hawker on the wing, a few Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax on Ivy and on fungi on near the Main Pond was the fungus fly Suillia notata. New for the Recording Area, a male with distinctive dense black hairs on mid femur, a distinguishing feature of this species.
Suillia notata - Alan Keatley
Elsewhere a Strawberry Blossom Weevil Anthonomus rubi was nectaring on Dandelion in the Buffer Zone, a Devil's Coach-horse Ocypus olens on the Golf Course, a Woodlouse Spider Dysdera crocata under driftwood in The Bight.
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Strawberry Blossom Weevil Anthonomus rubi - Alan Keatley 
Devil's Coach-horse Ocypus olens - Dave Jewell
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| Woodlouse Spider Dysdera crocata - Alan Keatley |
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