An exceptional day today at Pennington Flash today started with news of two black terns and four common terns. 500+sand martins were all over the flash and mid morning I heard a whimbrel calling and then saw it as it circled around the spit three times before flying away north.
This afternoon two little gulls were found off the boat club, where there was also a drake mandarin. A little egret flew from the heronry and landed out of view behind the spit and a common sandpiper landed on the side of the ruck.
The adult little gull was accompanied by this second summer bird.
The black terns often flew high with the hirundines and at such times were difficult to spot, occasionally going so high they were little more than dots.
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