An amazing morning at the flash with birds literally falling out of the sky. It started with a little tern which turned up at about 9:30am and was seen well up to 12 noon. Meanwhile at 11:00am a group of 200 swifts appeared over the ruck and fed for a few minutes before departing north. To put this into context, I only saw my first swift of the year yesterday and prior to today there had only been three swifts at the flash all year. Then at 11:30am over 30 arctic terns dropped in from the south, the first arctic terns of the year. A few remained into the evening, but most departed early afternoon and took with them the little tern. Finally two little ringed plover appeared on the yacht club foreshore.
A whimbrel had been on the spit first thing and a curlew flew over mid-morning, and there were three common sandpipers.
Common and little tern.
Arctic tern.
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