An early morning song thrush looked like a migrant as it flew in high and dropped directly into a gorse bush in the buffer zone not to be seen again. Apart from a single flock of 17 Skylark nothing else was on the move.
At least nine Chiffchaff, six Goldcrest and two male Blackcap were with the tit flock, with five Siskin and three Chaffinch in the Entrance Bushes.
Counts of wildfowl and waders from a low high tide included 801 Wigeon, 516 Teal, 186 Dunlin, 109 Dark and 12 Light-bellied Brent Geese, 65 Turnstone, 55 Curlew, 41 Great Black-backed, 28 Common and an adult Mediterranean Gull, 26 Ringed Plover, 10 Greenshank, nine Bar-tailed Godwit, three Great Crested Grebe and a Pintail.
Elsewhere at least 300 Gannet were feeding in the bay, most distantly, with three Common Scoter and a Great Northern Diver on the sea.
Other Wildlife: An interesting day for insects with a variety found sheltering including the tiny lace bug Acalypha parvula, the barkfly Pteroxanium kelloggi, and the bugs Beosus maritimus and Grey Damselbug Himacerus major.
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| Acalypha parvula - Alan Keatley |
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| Pteroxanium kelloggi - Alan Keatley |
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| Grey Damselbug Himacerus major - Alan Keatley |
Some beetles were blown onto the beach in the strong southwesterlies including several Dune Scarab and a Black Marram Weevil Otiorhynchus atroapterus.
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| Black Marram Weevil Otiorhynchus atroapterus - Alan Keatley |
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