This evening’s mass emergence of flying ants produced a big fall-out onto the estuary, so flycatching wasn’t a feature of the event; gulls were simply picking them off the mudflats and the surface of the water. There were truely incredible numbers of these insects, more than I can ever remember. Counts from the section of estuary just around the bridge included 2,042 Black-headed Gulls, 1 Med, 3 Yellow-leggeds, 1 Common, 231 Lesser B-b, 2 Great B-b, 134 Herring and 6 Common Sands.