Friday, 22 July 2022

Black terns, Pennington Flash


A wonderfully dismal, drizzly morning at the flash produced the hoped for black tern, an adult moulting around the head. Common tern numbers were well down, around 15 birds with at least four juveniles. Two common sandpipers were on the spit, and adult and juvenile little ringed plover at the boat club and two Egyptian geese still on the car park.

At lunchtime a second black tern appeared, also an adult.
 



Juvenile common tern.







2 comments:

  1. Not sure what happened to your blog. I thought you'd closed it but I stumbled on this. Welcome back!!

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    1. Thanks Derek, it was just a temporary glitch.

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