Saturday 25th July

Counts from the estuary included 180 Sandwich Tern, including 59 juveniles, 180 Redshank, 57 Whimbrel, 40 Dunlin, 28 Ringed and a Grey Plover, 18 Mediterranean and a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, 10 Greenshank, three Bar and a Black-tailed Godwit and a Common Sandpiper.

Elsewhere 44 Sanderling were on the beach, the Eider was on groyne 12 and the Coot was on the Main Pond.

Other Wildlife: A Heath Potter Wasp Eumenus coarctatus was again on Fennel in the Car Park, with the tiny solitary wasp Large-headed Bethylus B. cephalotes found on the dune slope, where an Alopecosa cuneata, a nationally scarce wolf spider was blending in well with the background.

Heath Potter Wasp Eumenus coarctatus - Kevin Rylands

Large-headed Bethylus B. cephalotes - Alan Keatley

Alopecosa cuneata - Alan Keatley

An increase in hoverfly numbers included Small Spot-eye Eristalinus sepulchralis, Hornet Plumehorn Volucella zonaria, Plain-faced Dronefly Eristalis arbustorum and Stripe-backed Fleckwing Dasysyrphus albostriatus.

Stripe-backed Fleckwing Dasysyrphus albostriatus - Alan Keatley

Today's selection of twelve butterfly species included a single Brown Argus and Small Tortoiseshell with at least five Clouded Yellow.and Painted Lady.

Small Tortoiseshell - Kevin Rylands

Painted Lady - Kevin Rylands

Brown Argus - Alan Keatley

Scampering for cover a Water Shrew near the Golf Course and a Brown Rat near the station.