Thursday 22nd June

Returning waders included 91 Curlew, 30 Bar-tailed Godwit, five Redshank, three Dunlin and two Greenshank. Also in the estuary the Slavonian Grebe, 11 Sandwich Tern, 61 Black-headed and a Mediterranean Gull.

Wildlife News: Tree Bumblebee are now well established on site with individuals in several locations including Warren Point. Garden and Buff-tailed Bumblebee were also recorded. The Black & Yellow Longhorn beetle (Rutpela maculata) can now be found nectaring on flowering Bramble.

Black & Yellow Longhorn Rutpela maculata - Alan Keatley