Tuesday 14th July

Counts from the estuary included 135 Sandwich and two Common Tern, 75 Dunlin, 

50 Mediterranean Gull, 28 Sanderling, nine Greenshank, four Bar-tailed Godwit, three Ringed and two Grey Plover and two Turnstone.

 Common Tern - Jim Summers

Dunlin - Jim Summers

Elsewhere the Coot and a Kingfisher were at the Main Pond, the Eider was off the beach, the Red-legged Partridge was around The Bight and eight Sand and two House Martin were overhead.

Kingfisher - Jim Summers

Ringing News: New Sandwich Tern recoveries included another bird from Dyfi Estuary mid Wales, now recorded for the 11th successive autumn and a bird from Church Norton, Sussex for its second autumn. 

Other Wildlife: A variety of insects still finding nectar sources in the increasing parched vegetation, including Common Mini-miner Andrena minutula, Sandpit Blood Bee Sphecodes pellucidus and Large Shield Wasp Crabro cribrarius. Also on the wing a couple of Jersey Tiger and Six-spot Burnet, a Clouded Yellow on the Golf Course was one of twelve butterfly species and five Odonata included a Southern Hawker.

Large Shield Wasp Crabro cribrarius - Alan Keatley

Sandpit Blood Bee Sphecodes pellucidus - Alan Keatley

Common Mini-miner Andrena minutula - Alan Keatley

Also recorded, two Birch Shieldbug Elasmostethus interstinctus instars on their foodplant, a Tansy gall caused by the midge Rhopalomyia tanaceticola and the Grey Seal was in The Bight.

Rhopalomyia tanaceticola gall on Tansy - Alan Keatley

Birch Shieldbug Elasmostethus interstinctus instar - Alan Keatley