Two new arrivals for the year, both part of a wider national influx, the first was a Jay briefly in Dead Dolphin Wood before flying north, with a Yellow-browed Warbler found late in the day of the Golf Course, with several Chiffchaff pre-roost.
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| Jay - Alan Keatley |
A juvenile Curlew Sandpiper was in The Bight with counts from the estuary including 61 Dark and five Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 55 Ringed Plover, 38 Knot, 36 Dunlin, 19 Greenshank, six Mediterranean Gull, four Black-tailed Godwit, three Sandwich Tern, two Whimbrel and a female Pintail.
Elsewhere two Grey Wagtail included one at the Main Pond, 60 Linnet were feeding in The Bight at low tide, a dozen skylark were overhead and the Red-legged Partridge was on the Golf Course.
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| Grey Wagtail - Alan Keatley |
174. Yellow-browed Warbler
173. Jay
Other Wildlife: With fewer flying insects on the wing, attention again switched to more terrestrial species, those noted included a nationally scarce Tawny Cockroach Ectobius pallidus, with an attached ootheca (egg case), the lacebug Acalypta parvula, a lacehopper Cixius nervosus and the leafhopper Kelisia sabulicola, and ladybirds included Meadow Rhyzobius litura, 16-spot and a Kidney-spot Ladybird nymph.
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| Tawny Cockroach Ectobius pallidus - Alan Keatley |
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| 16-spot Ladybird - Alan Keatley |
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| Acalypta parvula - Alan Keatley |
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| Cixius nervosus - Alan Keatley |
A few Ivy Bee were still active despite the overcast conditions, the the same Ivy also busy after dusk with Pearly Underwing, Black Rustic, Sallow and at least five Oedemera femoralis false blister beetles.
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| Ivy Bee - Kevin Rylands |
The bull Grey Seal was off Langstone Rock.
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