Sabine's Gull

failed to get up early this morning and it looked like we had missed the northward moving adult Sabine's Gull that had passed Chapel and Huttoft earlier - the latter place at 08:15 so while scanning south at 10:05 it was a real surprise to see an adult Sabine's coming up the tide edge; or so I thought because having grabbed the camera when I looked back all I could see were two Sandwich Terns on the beach! then it reappeared hanging over the terns and I set off in the rain and wind running the 1000m or so down the beach - it landed but not for very long before lifting up and being caught by the wind it drifted out towards the sea -- shame it didn't linger longer and the light wasn't better but small mercies -- otherwise a steady 7 hours with 6 juvenile Long-tailed Skuas, 56 Arctics but only 4 Bonxies, a couple of Black Terns, Little Gull, 4 juvenile Arctic Terns, one Sooty north and 4 Curlew Sandpipers north the best of a bevy of waders mostly Red Knot and Dunlin.

First view below as it came onto the beach