A funny start to today's tour, walking down to Bishop's hide I spotted an Egret flying over the reserve, my immediate thought was that look's big, it appeared to land on Billy's wash. We sped round to the beach car park and started walking towards north hide. One of the group then asked me if what she was looking at was a Tern, I looked with a naked eye and said "no, too big probably a herring Gull" ! I did then scope it and realised it was a tern and most likely a
CASPIAN TERN, aaggghhh, too late as the views weren't good enough, we never saw the egret again either! Some days are just like that.
After the early excitement we had an excellent afternoon and evening tour. On the reserve we saw
14 SPOONBILLS, 30+ Dunlin, c10 Ruff, 200+ Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Little Gulls,
6 Wood Sandpipers, 10 Gannets, a
Hobby which buzzed north scrape scattering all the birds but just missed out on a dunlin supper, 2 Greenshank, summer plumaged Spotted Redshank, Stonechat, 3+ Green Sandpiper, LRP & 2 Common Sandpipers.
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| juvenile Swallow |
After some very nice fish and chips in wells, we headed to Stiffkey fen seeing Yellowhammer, no less than
10 Mediterranean Gulls,
2 Barn Owls, 2 Common Sandpipers, Green Sand, Greenshank & a Chinese Water Deer.
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| Stiffkey marshes |
We finished the day with lovely views of a
NIGHTJAR dsiplaying plus two more churring and
2+ Woodcock roding like there was no tomorrow and another
Barn Owl.
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