Offshore the five Velvet Scoter remained with 11 Common Scoter, six Great Crested Grebe, a brief pair of Tufted Duck and a Red-throated Diver also present.
Little to report from the estuary on low tide visit, but a Spoonbill was overhead and good numbers of birds moved around the scrub with 14 Long-tailed, 12 Blue and six Great Tit, 12 Chiffchaff, eight Goldcrest and two Firecrest whilst seven Teal, two Kingfisher and a Little Grebe were on the Main Pond.
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| Teal - Dean Hall |
Other Wildlife: Late in the year, but still opportunities to finding new insects, with the ant hunting rove beetle Drusilla canaliculata found at the end of Warren Point, with the groundbug Scolopostethus decoratus at the same location.
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| Drusilla canaliculata - Alan Keatley |
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| Scolopostethus decoratus - Alan Keatley |
A Noon Fly Mesembrina meridiana was warming up in Skipper Meadow, with other insects on the wing including single Peacock and Red Admiral, Humming Syrphus S. ribesii hoverfly, Buff-tailed Bumblebee and a few Common Wasp.
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| Noon Fly Mesembrina meridiana - Alan Keatley |
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