Wednesday 8th April

Three Tufted Duck and a pair of Eider offshore were both first records for the year with the first three Whitethroat making landfall 

Elsewhere two Willow Warbler and a Wheatear were on site, and the Red-legged Partridge was on Warren Point.

Year List additions:
127. Whitethroat
126. Eider
125. Tufted Duck

Other Wildlife: Four species of butterfly were on the wing including a Brimstone and two Orange-tip. Other insects including two new beetles for the Recording Area, Coelostoma ocbiculare, a water scavenger beetle, in a puddle on the main track, the other the ground beetle Common Shortspur Anisodactylus binotatus, in grass along the Back Path.

Anisodactylus binotatus - Alan Keatley

Also, found today a mating scrum of Torpedo Sawfly Nematus lucidus on Hawthorn by the Tractor Compound, a few Brown Willow Beetle Galerucella lineola, the cranefly Tipula vernalis, a Ruby Tiger caterpillar and a fly through Hornet.

Brown Willow Beetle Galerucella lineola - Alan Keatley

Torpedo Sawfly Nematus lucidus - Alan Keatley