Seawatching early morning saw 10 Red-throated and seven Great Northern Diver, six Common Scoter, three Sandwich Tern and two Great Crested Grebe offshore.
Counts from the estuary over the morning high tide included 109 Curlew, 40 Bar-tailed Godwit, 15 Turnstone, 13 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 12 Ringed Plover, eight Red-breasted Merganser, seven Dunlin and a Knot.
Elsewhere migrants included single Blackcap, Swallow, Wheatear and Willow Warbler with a Shoveler on the Main Pond and the Red-legged Partridge was still on Warren Point.
Other Wildlife: It wasn't a day for flying insects, but there good numbers of beetles on the beach and edge of The Bight, including two new species for the Recording Area, a horned dung beetle Onthophagus similis and the ground beetle Bembidion dentellum, both relatively common and widespread.
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| Onthophagus similis - Alan Keatley |
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| Bembidion dentellum - Alan Keatley |
Other species included the rove beetles Tachyporus hypnorum and Philonthus cognatus, the rare driftwood weevil Pselactus spadix, the ground beetle Harpalus affinis and a 2-spot Ladybird, plus, the dune spider Zelotes electus.
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| Pselactus spadix - Alan Keatley |
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| Tachyporus hypnorum - Alan Keatley |
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| Philonthus cognatus - Alan Keatley |
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| Harpalus affinis - Alan Keatley |
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| 2-spot Ladybird - Alan Keatley |
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| Zelotes electus - Alan Keatley |
