A total of 510 Black-tailed Godwit, 34 Sanderling, 17 Greenshank and nine Avocet were in the estuary on the dropping morning tide with the 2CY Little Gull still in main channel and a 2CY Yellow-legged Gull on Bull Hill.
Elsewhere five Great Northern Diver and five Common Scoter were offshore, 60 Linnet were on Warren Point, 37 Magpie roosted in the Entrance Bushes and a Little Grebe has returned to the Main Pond, where a female Shoveler, several Water Rail and a Cetti's Warbler were present.
Year List additions:
103. Little Grebe
102. Yellow-legged Gull
Other Wildlife: Between showers, the weather wasn't too bad with a few more active invertebrates few including a Gorse Weevil Exapion ulicis on its foodplant with plenty of Gorse Thrips Odontothrips ulicis. On an early flowering Alexanders, a common blowfly Calliphora vicina and a Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria.
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| Gorse Weevil Exapion ulicis - Alan Keatley |
Elsewhere a Bembidion lunulatum amongst Marram and a large sac spider Clubiona corticalis.
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| Bembidion lunulatum - Alan Keatley |
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