A ringlet was also seen the previous day in Andy's West Mersea garden and was his first record there.
Other butterflies seen at Cudmore Grove on Monday by Andy were painted lady, common blue, peacock, meadow brown, small skipper, large white and comma.
Six-spot burnet moths were seen emerging at Cudmore Grove on Monday. A female and male were photographed here mating by Andy.
Birds noted at Cudmore Grove on Monday by Andy included lots of young whitethroats, also blackcaps seen.
A sedge warbler photographed by Andy at Cudmore Grove on Monday. Two ringed plover chicks were near the old fort by the Point. Three chicks and another two chicks were seen by Tom of the Bird Aware Essex Coast team. An adult ringed plover was seen by Andy still sitting on the nest at the Point. Some Mediterranean gulls were with some black-headed gulls on the Golfhouse saltmarsh and two common terns were on the pools here.
A Mediterranean gull was photographed by Peter Marchington on the West Mersea beach opposite Shears Court on Friday 4th. The bird has the red colour ring PHRK on it and we're currently trying to find out where it was ringed. The summering brent goose has been seen a few times along the same beach, most recently Thursday 3rd.
At Maydays on Friday Martin Cock saw eight green sandpipers fly up the Pyefleet channel, a hobby, four yellowhammers, yellow wagtail, two pairs of shelduck - one with four young, the other with two young, six sand martins and also five common seals.
Steve Entwistle visited Cudmore Grove on Friday and saw a barn owlet at the entrance to the nesting box, also garden warbler, sedge warbler, two whitethroats. Along the seawall were 35 sand martins, 15 swallows, six common terns, also good views of small red-eyed damselflies, two emperor dragonflies and four black-tailed skimmers.
Birds of note on Thursday near the Firs Caravan park included 7 curlew, 4 redshank, 2 buzzard, kestrel, sedge warbler, two reed warblers and ten goldfinches, while 30 swifts were over the houses.
At East Mersea Martin Cock reported on Thursday morning seeing a little tern and sandwich tern off Stone Point, also four common terns, five Mediterranean gulls, 100 sand martins flying about and one ringed plover chick near the old fort.
On Wednesday 2nd an Arctic tern was seen by Daniel Woollard flying west past the Cudmore Grove ramp in the evening. Also 100 sand martins flying around with a few swallows and swifts mixed in. At least two barn owl chicks were showing well at the nest box.
Along the Strood seawall on Wednesday were 40 redshank, 7 curlew, two kestrels, two sedge warblers, reed warbler, two stonechats, yellow wagtail and a shelduck.
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