A juvenile Little Ringed Plover was in The Bight over the morning high tide with 186 Ringed Plover, 67 Dunlin, 45 Sandwich and 27 Common Tern, 27 Sanderling, nine Turnstone and two Grey Plover. At least 50 Common Tern were on Bull Hill late evening.
Elsewhere the bushes were quiet but a juvenile Sedge Warbler was on Warren Point with a Kingfisher at the Main Pond.
Continuing evidence of migration over both high tides with peak counts of 236 Redshank, 140 Ringed Plover, 92 Sandwich and 28 Common Tern, 59 Dunlin, 54 Whimbrel, 25 Sanderling, 11 Mediterranean Gull including 10 juveniles, 10 Greenshank, five Bar-tailed Godwit, four Turnstone, three Grey Plover and two summer plumaged Knot.
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| Knot, Grey Plover & Black-headed Gull - Mark Bailey |
Elsewhere 40 Manx and five Balearic Shearwater were offshore in the evening and a Buzzard was in Dead Dolphin Wood.
Other Wildlife: Hot continental weather, with heatwave conditions, drifted migratory insects into the Recording Area with three Clouded Yellow, including a pale helice type alongside a Painted Lady in Greenland Lake, at least a dozen Rush Veneer around the site and several Migrant Hawker at the Main Pond.
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| Clouded Yellow - Mark Bailey |
On Common Fleabane in the flower meadows were Dark Fleabane Neb Apodia martinii and Straw-barred Pearl Pyrausta despicata.
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| Dark Fleabane Neb Apodia martinii - Alan Keatley |
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| Straw- barred Pearl Pyrausta despicata - Alan Keatley |
In more sheltered areas were two new diptera for the Warren, the hoverfly Lesser Bulbfly Eumerus funeralis and the lauxaniidae fly Minettia longipennis.
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| Minettia longipennis - Alan Keatley |
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| Lesser Bulbfly Eumerus funeralis - Alan Keatley |
Other insects noted were the bugs Compsidolon salicellum, Lined Spittlebug Neophilaenus lineatus and a Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly Sericomyia silentis.
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| Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly Sericomyia silentis - Alan Keatley |
An adult Spoonbill, just the second record this year, was a new arrival on Finger Point over the morning high tide, although it may only have travelled down river.
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| Spoonbill - Lee Collins |
Three Little Ringed Plover, an adult and two juveniles in the estuary, included a couple of new birds with counts including 109 Ringed Plover, 47 Dunlin, 41 Sandwich and 12 Common Tern, 14 Shelduck, 12 Greenshank, six Bar-tailed Godwit and single Grey Plover, Sanderling and Turnstone.
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| Little Ringed Plover (juvenile) - Lee Collins |
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| Spoonbill - Dave Jewell |
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| Grey Plover - Dave Jewell |
Elsewhere the first Whinchat of the year, a juvenile, on Warren Point was the pick of very few passerine migrants.
Year list addition:
160. Whinchat
The juvenile Little Ringed Plover remained in The Bight over both high tides with peak counts, all on the evening tide, of 84 Ringed Plover, 41 Dunlin, 13 Sanderling, five Bar-tailed Godwit, four Common Sandpiper and a Grey Plover.
Bar-tailed Godwit, the first juvenile of the year - Lee Collins 
Little Ringed Plover - Lee Collins
Also in the estuary 82 Sandwich and four Common Tern, 43 Whimbrel, eight Greenshank and a Kingfisher.
Other records included six adult Mediterranean and a 4cy Yellow-legged Gull feeding on the Golf Course with singles of Sand Martin overhead and Sedge Warbler and Wheatear on site.
Other Wildlife: At least two Common and a Bottle-nosed Dolphin were distantly offshore.
A juvenile Little Ringed Plover was in The Bight over the morning tide with 63 Sandwich and 15 Common Tern, 51 Ringed Plover, including 10 juveniles, 24 Dunlin and 23 Sanderling.
Elsewhere two Arctic Skua and a Great Northern Diver were offshore, three Swift were overhead and the pair of Sparrowhawk completed a food pass over the successful nest site.
Other Wildlife: It was all about flies today with a ragwort gall picture-winged fly Sphenella marginata, the hoverfly Figwort Blacklet Cheilosia variabilis, with its characteristic open wings, and on Wild Carrot the gall of the midge Kiefferia pericarpilcola.
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| Sphenella marginata - Alan Keatley |
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| Figwort Blacklet Cheilosia variabilis - Alan Keatley |
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| Kiefferia pericarpilcola gall - Alan Keatley |
A Hornet was weaving through the flowers in Greenland Lake and on the Main Pond were a few Small Red-eyed Damselfly, a Common Darter and an Emperor Dragonfly.
Counts over the evening high tide included at least 131 Sandwich Tern including 41 juveniles, 67 Ringed Plover, 31 Dunlin and three Common Tern, with a Balearic Shearwater offshore.
On a low tide visit 52 Sandwich and three Common Tern were on Bull Hill with 13 Common Scoter and a Great Crested Grebe offshore and a Willow Warbler by the Main Pond.
Other Wildlife: Another new ant for the Recording Area, the widespread Yellow Meadow Ant Lasius flavus was discovered along the railway wall, a winged queen taken by a scavenging Formica cunicularia.
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| Yellow Meadow Ant Lasius flavus & Formica cunicularia - Alan Keatley |
Also on the wing two Painted Lady, a Small-notched Mason-wasp Ancistrocerus gazella, several Common Furrow Bee Lasioglossum calceatum on Water Mint, Sandpit Blood Bee Sphecodes pellucidus on Common Fleabane and a Black Mining Bee Andrena nigripes near Langstone Rock.
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| Common Furrow Bee Lasioglossum calceatum - Alan Keatley |
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| Painted Lady - Alan Keatley |
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| Small-notched Mason-wasp Ancistrocerus gazella - Alan Keatley |
The long tail of Storm Floris saw a few seabirds pushed into the bay, including the first Storm Petrel of the year south during a 3.5 hrs seawatch at 8am, with a second at 11.20. Also passing south 15 Balearic Shearwater, c20 Common Tern, three Fulmar, three Common Scoter and a Great Northern Diver.
Year list addition:
159. Storm Petrel
Other Wildlife: Despite the blustery conditions there were a good selection of insects to be found in sheltered spots, including two more firsts for the Recording Area. These were the tachinid Striped-backed Phasia P. obesa found near the Dune Pond and the ant Temnothorax nylanderi on fencing by the Station path.
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| Striped-backed Phasia P. obesa - Alan Keatley |
Also of note, Pale-footed Black Wasp Psenulus palipes and the moths Common Purple and Gold Pyrausta purpuralis and several Rush Veneer.
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| Pale-footed Black Wasp Psenulus palipes - Alan Keatley |
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| Rush Veneer - Alan Keatley |
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| Common Purple and Gold Pyrausta purpuralis - Alan Keatley |
Elsewhere the hoverflies Variable Spearhorn Chrysotoxum elegans and Parsley Blacklet Cheilosia pagana in Greenland Lake and offshore three Common Dolphin and a Harbour Porpoise.
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| Variable Spearhorn Chrysotoxum elegans - Alan Keatley |
On a low high tide the majority of terns remained distant on the uncovered Bull Hill, with at least 100 Sandwich and two Common Tern present. Also in the estuary 70+ Ringed Plover, 25 Dunlin, nine Bar and two Black-tailed Godwit, four Teal and two Knot, with a Wheatear along the dune ridge.
Counts from The Bight over the low high tide included 73 Ringed Plover, 61 Dunlin (20 juveniles), 53 Sandwich Tern, five Sanderling and five Turnstone. Also present the first Wheatear of the autumn.
Ringing News: By the end of July a total of 58 Exe colour-ringed Oystercatcher were back for another winter on the estuary, a third of the 175 birds recorded last winter.
Other Wildlife:
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| Wasp Spider - Lee Collins |
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| Dingy Footman - Lee Collins |
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| Superb Ant-hill Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum - Lee Collins |
