A low tide visit saw few birds of note with a 3CY Mediterranean Gull on the beach, two Sandwich Tern offshore and a juvenile Grey Heron at the Main Pond.
Other Wildlife: A good day for summer insects with eleven butterfly species on the wing, including the first Brown Argus of the year, a male, in the Back Meadow and, now rare for the Recording Area, a Small Tortoiseshell near the Crazy Golf. A couple of summer generation Holly Blue were seen and on the move good numbers of Large and Small White with a few Red Admiral.
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| Small Tortoiseshell - Alan Keatley |
A good variety of Odonata including ovipositing Red-eyed Damselfly on the Main Pond and a male Red-veined Darter briefly on the Dune Ridge. Also, on the dune ridge a Roesel's Bush-Cricket and a Mottled Grasshopper along the Back Path.
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| Roesel's Bush-Cricket - Alan Keatley |
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| Mottled Grasshopper - Alan Keatley |
Less noticeable, a pair of mating Dark-winged Black Pachygaster atra soldierfly and a false blister beetle Oedemera lurida.
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| Dark-winged Black Pachygaster atra - Alan Keatley |
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| Oedemera lurida - Alan Keatley |
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