Two Firecrest today, one in the carpark bushes and the usual bird in Dead Dolphin Wood. Amongst the roaming Long-tailed Tit were eight Goldcrest, a Coal Tit and at least twelve Chiffchaff. Also on site four Siskin in the Entrance Bushes, a Kingfisher at the Main Pond, a Grey Wagtail at Langstone Rock and 40 Linnet around The Bight.
Elsewhere two Great Northern Diver were offshore and in the estuary counts on the receding tide included 900 Dunlin, 101 Shelduck, 36 Turnstone, 19 Knot and 12 Grey Plover.
Other Wildlife: Of the few insects on the wing a November Moth agg was near the Main Pond and just one late hoverfly, a docile Hairy-eyed Syrphus S. torvus. Other insects were on a much smaller scale with the leafhoppers Megopthalmus scabripennis and Ribautiana tenerrina and the barkfly Valenzuela flavidus.
November Moth agg - Alan Keatley 
Megopthalmus scabripennis - Alan Keatley
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| Ribautiana tenerrina - Alan Keatley |
A few specimens of the tiny national rare Petalwort Petalophyllum ralfsii have emerged in Greenland Lake.
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| Petalwort Petalophyllum ralfsii - Alan Keatley |
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