Counts from the evening hight tide 125 Curlew, 41 Bar-tailed Godwit, 22 Dark and a Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 21 Sanderling, 18 Redshank, 17 Turnstone, eight Dunlin, eight Grey and seven Ringed Plover, seven Knot and five Greenshank.
Elsewhere 18 Sandwich Tern, six Common Scoter and a Red-throated Diver were offshore and migrants included six Chiffchaff, three Wheatear and a Willow Warbler.
Other Wildlife: The first two male Orange-tip of the year were on the wing with at least a dozen Peacock, also emerging for the first time the hoverflies, Spring Epistrophe E. eligans and Common Tiger Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus.
On the beach the leaf beetle Prasocuris phellandrii, the rove beetles Bledius spectabilis and Cafius xantholoma and in rock pools, that were recently part of Warren Point, Painted Goby Pomatoschistus pictus, new for the Recording Area, and a European Sting Winkle Ocenebra erinaceus.
European Sting Winkle Ocenebra erinaceus - Kevin Rylands
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