Wednesday 8 July 2020

110 and a dip

Today was just a local walk with the Tufted Duck still tending three ducklings which I wrongly assumed had been predated, singles of Cormorant and Grey Heron and a return of the Barnacle Goose in the company of fifteen Canadas.

Yesterday was a return to TH after 110 days (all well organised and socially distanced with a second visit booked for next week) which saw a dip in the shape of Roseate Tern found by MF on the scrapes after lunch and after I'd been defeated by gout/arthritis and not able to visit the west side. Over sixty Avocets present  on the reserve and a handful of Turnstones on the beach but little else.

Below Smessex Skipper, skippers on ragwort, first Common Darter of year, Rutpela maculata, Ringlet, Vollucella pellucens, Peacock and Broad-leaved Helleborine).