A low high tide with The Bight left uncovered, although 51 Bar-tailed Godwit, eight Whimbrel, seven Knot, three Grey Plover and a Dark-bellied Brent Goose were on the water's edge.
Elsewhere three Willow Warbler were on site, the Red-legged Partridge and a Wheatear were on Warren Point, 21 Manx Shearwater flew S, and the pair of Eider remained offshore with 18 Sandwich Tern and small numbers of Great Crested Grebe, Red-throated and Great Northern Diver.
Other Wildlife: Despite the chill in the wind a good number of insects on the wing with five species of butterfly including the first Small Copper and Holly Blue of the year, and a Painted Lady along the beach.
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| Small Copper - Alan Keatley |
Bees included the nationally scarce Black Mining Bee Andrena pilipes on the carpark roundabout, Gwynne's Mining Bee A. bicolor by the Entrance Bushes, where there were also good numbers of Orange-tailed Mining Bee A. haemorrhoa.
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| Black Mining Bee Andrena pilipes - Alan Keatley |
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| Orange-tailed Mining Bee Andrena haemorrhoa - Alan Keatley |
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| Gwynne's Mining Bee Andrena bicolor - Alan Keatley |
Other insects included the first Dark Bush-cricket nymph of the year, the sawfly Aglaostigma fulvipes and the moths Nettle-tap and Grey Gorse Piercer Cydia ulicetana, with Bishop's Mitre Aelia acuminata and a nymph European Chinchbug Ischodemus sabuleti on the beach.
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| European Chinchbug Ischodemus sabuleti - Alan Keatley |
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| Bishop's Mitre Aelia acuminata - Alan Keatley |
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| Aglaostigma fulvipes - Alan Keatley |
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| Metellina mengei - Alan Keatley |
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| Crepidodera aurea - Alan Keatley |
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