Minimum totals from the estuary included 111 Mediterranean Gull, 75 Sandwich Tern, 70 Redshank, including at least five juveniles, and 45 Oystercatcher. Other counts included 22 Whimbrel, seven Dunlin, five Greenshank, three Grey Plover, three Bar and a Black-tailed Godwit.
Elsewhere a first winter Coot on the Main Pond was the clear highlight, the first on site since 27 March 2020 and only the second since 2014.
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| Coot - Alan Keatley |
Ringing News: Two new Exe ringed Oystercatcher were back over high tide along with Mediterranean Gull from France, Germany and Ireland and Sandwich Tern from Hampshire and Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey.
Other Wildlife: The continuing hot summer weather saw a lot of insect activity on the reserve with 13 species of butterfly, included hundreds of Gatekeeper, two Brown Argus and a Clouded Yellow in Greenland Lake.
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| Brown Argus - Alan Keatley |
Every pond held at least one Odonata species, although the First Pond is now just a puddle. Ovipositing Emperor Dragonfly, Red-eyed Damselfly, Black-tailed Skimmer at the Main Pond and a couple of Common Darter at the Dune Pond.
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| Emperor Dragonfly - Alan Keatley |
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| Common Darter - Alan Keatley |
Not to miss out Hymenoptera included Small Shaggy Bee Panurgus calcaratus, Pantaloon Bee Dasypoda hirtipes, Common Ectemnius E .continuus, Willow Mason Wasp Symmorphus bifasciatus and Black-thighed Epeolus E. variegatus.
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| Pantaloon Bee Dasypoda hirtipes - Alan Keatley |
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| Common Ectemnius E .continuus - Alan Keatley |
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