The dropping tide saw 122 Curlew and 41 Canada Geese, including all eight fledged young from the Main Pond, remaining in the saltmarsh with a flock of five Raven flying across The Bight and three Shag on the breakwater at Langstone Rock.
Other Wildlife: Plenty of insect activity in the warm sunshine with nine species of butterfly including a female Brown Argus in the Entrance Bushes and four Odonata species including a female Broad-bodied Chaser and 10+ Red-eyed Damselfly at the Main Pond.
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| Brown Argus - Alan Keately |
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| Red-eyed Damselfly - Alan Keatley |
New emergences included a Four-banded Beegrabber Conops quadrifasciatus, the leaf beetle Cryptocephalus fulvus, the mirid bug Plagiognathus arbustorum and the nationally scarce Hairy Stiltbug Berytinus hirticornis.
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| Hairy Stiltbug Berytinus hirticornis - Alan Keatley |
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