At least two Little Gull remained today with an adult and 2CY, both close in off groyne 9 and later the seawall offshore pm, earlier an adult headed distantly south. Also offshore five Great Northern Diver, three Common Scoter and a 'redhead' Goosander that flew in off and up river early morning.
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| Great Northern Diver - Dean Hall |
The Merlin was hunting the saltmarsh with counts from the estuary including 910 Black and 78 Bar-tailed Godwit, 125 Grey and 15 Ringed Plover, 101 Knot, three Avocet, two Red-breasted Merganser and a Guillemot.
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| Guillemot - Dean Hall |
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| Redshank- Dean Hall |
Year List additions:
97. Goosander
Other Wildlife: A few insects ventured out in the mild, but damp weather. On vegetation the leafhoppers Ribautiana tenerrima, and new for the Recording Area, an Empoasca vitis on Gorse.
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| Ribautiana tenerrima - Alan Keatley |
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| Empoasca vitis - Alan Keatley |
Found under logs a Dingy Footman caterpillar, the springtail Dicyrtomina saundersi and Stenus clavicornis, a common grassland rove beetle.
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| Dicyrtomina saundersi - Alan Keatley |
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| Dingy Footman - Alan Keatley |
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| Stenus clavicornis - Alan Keatley |
Elsewhere a Grey Seal was in the estuary.
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