Friday 26 July 2024

Little Terns

Four Little Terns whizzed upriver at 0820 this morning. Also off Mudbank - 97 Mallard, 3 Great Crested Grebes, at least 2 Common Terns and 19 Whimbrel.
Yesterday off there 9+ Common Terns, 84 Mallard and, late in the evening, a flock of c80 Redshank.
22/7 - 1 Great Crested Grebe, 3+ Common Terns and 1 Mediterranean Gull. A late look off Shelly Beach revealed c145+ Sandwich Terns and 6+ Common Terns.
21/7 - 70+ Mallard, 1 Canada Goose, 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls and 2 Common Terns. Off Shelly Beach - c50 Sandwich Terns, 1 Common Tern, 2 Mediterranean Gulls, 1 Black-tailed Godwit and 200+ Curlew. A look off Maer Rocks in the morning produced 17 Mediterranean Gulls, 4 Manx Shearwaters, 6 shearwater sp (three of which may have been Balearic but were just too distant), 4 Little Egrets, 1 Fulmar and 1 Dunlin.


Little Egrets past Maer Rocks towards the river on 21/7.

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