Watching cricket at Crosby this afternoon left me handily placed for an
evening visit to Crossens for a fabulous juvenile white-winged black tern. It
was a little distant but still an excellent view. Driving past Hesketh Road I
also had a spoonbill fly over the saltmarsh heading south.
The last white-winged black terns I saw were at Coral Bay in Western Australia
in 2019, the last UK bird was at Burton Mere Wetlands in the same year.
These are just screen dumps from a video I took, not great but if you squint
you can almost make out the bird! It was about 200m out from the wildfowlers
pull in on Marine Drive in fading light, I had no chance of getting a photo
with my camera. Actually I quite like this set of photos, they convey far more
accurately the reality and thrill of the sighting than any frame filler which
might be technically perfect but also completely soulless.
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