Wednesday 16 August 2017

No sign of yesterday's Black Tern flock off the Oysterbeds and no Ospreys as yet. Still a few unfledged Common Tern chicks on the raft and plenty of Curlew etc out on the mud.

Along the Billy just a few Whitethroats.

A good indication of how quickly insect numbers have dropped off a cliff is that on the usual park circuit I took four frames of this Figwort Sawfly and nothing else; normally I'd expect to rattle off 100+ frames per visit.