An hour from the sea watch hide this morning produced just a few Sandwich and Common Terns that were generally just feeding offshore, also trickle of Gannets and Kittiwakes, the only notable was a Common Sandpiper that flew West along the tide line.
Hummingbird Hawk-moth
Behind the hide by the wall along the road to the carpark, a Black Redstart, 12 Hummingbird Hawk-moths and a Clouded Yellow were notable.
Hummingbird Hawk-moth nectaring on Valerian
Clouded Yellow nectaring on Valerian
Clouded Yellow disturbed by a Hummingbid Hawk-moth
Wheatear behind the railway station this morning
In The Desert this morning my first Common Redstart albeit very briefly of the year courtesy of Richard, also 3 Wheatears, a couple of Willow Warblers and a few Common and Lesser Whitethroats, 2 Garden Warblers were in a private garden.
There was no sign if the Pectoral Sandpiper at the SE end of the ARC this morning or in another look this afternoon. From Hansont he usual Egrets, Garganey, Common Sandpipers and Little Ringed Plovers, a juvenile Dunlin and a Hobby were noted, also the Avocet chicks were showing off flying up and down the length of the lake.
Garganey on the ARC from Hanson
Another sea watch this afternoon was again uninspiring, though 2 Harbour Porpoises were feeding close inshore, but evaded the camera showing up my incompetence.
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