Lesser Emperor lingers

Dry and largely overcast till evening sunshine. A west breeze

South shore

A walk along the sea wall 10:45 - 11:30 - Malcolm

Mediterranean gulls at least 23 on the feeding beach by the wooden jetty.

Two 3rd calendar year Mediterranean gulls

This is where the Mediterranean gull with a limp always is (circled)
There are plenty of Sandmason worm tube here, but for some reason 
the other gulls keep clear. Perhaps it is only an undesirable area as the
limping bird defends it vigorously.

Its tactic it to wait and watch the nearby tubes, it misses out on one to the left but catches one to the right in this clip.

Osprey 1 - when it arrived from the north, all the gulls on the seaward end of the feeding beach lifted, but most, if not all, landed again and resumed feeding even though the Osprey was fishing close by.

It made a few aborted dives.....

......then had a rest on the post at the end of No.2 outfall.
It has a blue ring on its right leg

Then back to fishing again

Peregrine Falcon 1 adult flew over the Nature Park.

I returned towards high water.

Nature Park

Bullfinch 2 juvenile 

Sparrowhawk 1 female

Meadow Brown 4

Ringlet 5

Small White 4

Large White 1

Gatekeeper 7

Red Nab

Painted Lady 1

Juvenile Pied Wagtail 

Female Eider

Plenty of gulls remained on Red Nab

There were Mediterranean gulls with the Black Headed

Pete checked from Ocean Edge

29 Mediterranean gulls (3 x 2cy) Red Nab and outfalls 

2cy Shag wooden jetty 

1 Whimbrel Red Nab

Middleton Nature Reserve main pond - Malcolm

We are moving back to hot sunny weather later in the week, so I thought I would check the main pond for what dragonflies remained after the last spell. The sun had come out and it was quite warm. But there weren't a lot of dragonflies to be seen.

Brown Hawker 1

Black-Tailed Skimmer 3 males

Black-Tailed Skimmer

Emperor - only one seen, but it was chasing a 

male Lesser Emperor 

Far from great shots, but fortunately good enough to identify the distinctive 
male of this species. 

Butterflies 

Red Admiral 1

Meadow Brown 2

Green-Veined White 1

Gatekeeper 2

Silver Y several

Reed Warbler

Chiffchaff 

Blackcap 

Cetti's Warbler

All singing

Swallow 3

Swallow 

Pheasant 1 (accidentally flushed)

Pheasant 

Mallard at least 3 broods with mums

Coot at least 4 broods with adults 

Moorhen 2

Mute Swan 3