Typical Tern weather this morning with a E>3 at 12 degrees on a very low cloud base and heavy drizzle.
A morning of gulls on the move with LBBs coming onto the water before heading off >NE whilst BH gulls headed >SE plus 2 Common gull >NE. Another 4 Common gulls were on the Wainstalls football pitch and 6 in Foxhill Park.
Lapwings were heading >SW whilst Swifts were moving >S morning and afternoon.
Undoubtedly the bird of the day was a Common Tern through >NE at 1000 hrs just as I was tackling up. It was half way across the water when I picked it up, dropping 3 times onto the water but keeping going away from me into the drizzle . Every time I put the bins down I failed to find it in the camera so I was hoping it would do another circuit of the water but it disappeared into the mist >NE.
I went to Fly Flatts this morning with Arctic Tern as a target bird seeing the conditions and reports of a good move yesterday on the east coast but I was happy with Common Tern, a rare bird for this site and my third this year so far.
The afternoon had brightened up so quietened down apart from a continuation of Swifts heading >S in migration mode.
Early evening my neighbour alerted me to a Red Legged Partridge on a kitchen window ledge a few doors away. I checked the bird, which had no ring and seemed ok, possible exhausted or dazed if it had hit the window so I left it be to come round. Strange where it came from as there are none around the village.
2 Ringed Plover
2 Stock Dove
3 Kestrel
48 BH gull...............>SE
36 LBB gull............>NE
2 Common gull......>NE
1 Common Tern.....>NE
31 Lapwing............>SW
94 Swift.................>S
+ usual sp.
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