Counts from the high tide included 1,100 Dunlin, 840 Black and 120 Bar-tailed Godwit, 139 Grey and eight Ringed Plover, 118 Knot, 67 Common Gull, 27 Turnstone, 20 Greenshank and 10 Avocet.
Elsewhere the Cetti's Warbler was singing in the Entrance Bushes.
Other Wildlife: The promise of dry weather didn't materialise, with the water level on the Main Pond still rising over topping the floor of viewing platform. Avoiding the floods, the ground beetle Bluish Plate-jaw Leistus fulvibarbis in the Entrance Bushes and on the emerging Alexanders, the fruit fly Tephritis vespertina; although very invasive, this plant is an important nectar source for a range of insects now emerging earlier in late winter/early spring.
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| Bluish Plate-jaw Leistus fulvibarbis - Alan Keatley |
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| Tephritis vespertina - Alan Keatley |
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