The first Golden Plover of the year was in The Bight over high tide along with 73 Dunlin, 26 Knot, 20 Grey and six Ringed Plover, nine Greenshank, five Red-breasted Merganser and single Continental sinesis Cormorant, Pale-bellied Brent Goose and Sanderling.
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| Golden Plover - Lee Collins |
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| Golden & Grey Plover - Dave Jewell |
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| Continental Cormorant - Lee Collins |
Elsewhere 27 Great Crested Grebe, eight Great Northern and seven Red-throated Diver and seven Common Scoter were offshore with the Cetti's Warbler by the Car Park.
Other Wildlife: The change in weather saw a Sand Lizard basking on Warren Point, with an increase in invertebrate activity on the warming sand, including a new ground beetle for the Recording Area, Bembidion obtusum.
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| Sand Lizard - Jim Summers |
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| Bembidion obtusum - Alan Keatley |
Active groundbugs included Plinthisus brevipennis, Beosus maritimus and Scolopostethus thomsoni, with the tachinid fly Macquartia tenebricosa looking out for a leaf beetle host.
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| Beosus maritimus - Alan Keatley |
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| Macquartia tenebricosa - Alan Keatley |
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| Dock Bug - Alan Keatley |
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