Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Arctic Terns

At The Patch this morning 2+ juvenile Arctic Terns with c40 Common Terns and a single juvenile Mediterranean Gull were of note.(DW had a Balearic Shearwater through before I arrived)
Juvenile Arctic Tern


At the ARC Pit 12 wader species, 3 Avocets, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Ringed Plovers, 2 Dunlin, 6 Common Sandpipers, a Juvenile Redshank, 2 Turnstone, 8 Golden Plover, 4 Oystercatchers, 2 Common Snipe and c50Lapwing. Also 2 Garganey, 17 Common Terns, 2 Sandwich Terns, 2 Marsh Harriers, 3 Little Egrets and 2 Reed Warblers still singing .
A plod around the reserve this afternoon was made worthwhile by 2 families of Bearded Tits, 2 more Marsh Harriers, still at least 6 Common Tern chicks on the rafts and 4 Little Egrets .

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