Overhead at least 5,770 Woodpigeon, with some flocks lost in the low cloud, also heading W, 151 Jackdaw, 32 Stock Dove and 16 Rook. Under the cloud, and heading east, the first seven Redwing and lone Mistle Thrush of the autumn, with at least 80 Goldfinch, 11 Swallow, six Chaffinch, three Reed Bunting and three Siskin.
Counts from the estuary included 326 Canada and 82 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 76 Shelduck, 74 Dunlin, 44 Ringed Plover, 27 Sanderling, 25 Knot, 18 Greenshank, four Mediterranean Gull and a Whimbrel.
Elsewhere the Cetti's Warbler was again singing in the Buffer Zone, 17 Common Scoter were offshore, a Kingfisher was at the Main Pond and six Chiffchaff and a Goldcrest were in the bushes.
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| Cirl Bunting - Lee Collins |
Other Wildlife: A new species for the Recording Area was found on the Golf Course, the minute scavenger beetle Cortinicara minuta. It Is a common species in decaying vegetation, but at under 2mm, unsurprisingly has gone unnoticed until now.
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| Cortinicara minuta - Alan Keatley |
Amongst the fewer flying insects, a female Locust Blowfly Stomorhina lunata; a migrant species that has become more frequent in recent years in late summer and autumn, a helice Clouded Yellow and the hoverflies Many-tufted Sedgesitter Platycheirus scutatus, Common Tiger Helophilus pendulus and a few Marmalade Hoverfly Eristalinus balteatus.
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| Marmalade Hoverfly Eristalinus balteatus - Alan Keatley |
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| Locust Blowfly Stomorhina lunata - Alan Keatley |
On the Dune Ridge, the ground spider Drassodes cupreus.
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| Drassodes cupreus - Alan Keatley |
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