Counts from the estuary and afternoon high tide included 108 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 74 Curlew, 42 Bar-tailed Godwit, 28 Redshank, 23 Sanderling, 22 Turnstone, 17 Grey and five Ringed Plover, 15 Knot, nine Teal, eight Greenshank, three Red-breasted Merganser and a Dunlin.
Elsewhere six Great Crested Grebe, three Common Scoter and a Great Northern Diver were offshore with two Chiffchaff and the Cetti's Warbler in song.
Other Wildlife: Overcast conditions saw few insects on the wing but on the beach there were several Black Marram Weevil Otiorhychus atroapterus and Dune Scarab Aegialia arenaria with single Marram Weevil Philopedon plagiatum and the rove beetle Xantholinus linearis.
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| Black Marram Weevil Otiorhychus atroapterus - Alan Keatley |
A range of other invertebrates found elsewhere, including a flightless female Dotted Border moth, the springtail Orchesella villosa, the planthopper Eurysa lineata, a Bristly Millipede and the flightless wasp Callitula pyrrhogaster.
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| Dotted Border - Kevin Rylands |
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| Eurysa lineata - Kevin Rylands |
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| Orchesella villosa - Alan Keatley |
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