taking a stroll from home yesterday evening I almost half expected the Caspian tern to be back on sailing pit as it had been ,missing from Yorkshire all day - or so I thought - it caught a fish and flew off west towards Read's island where all the gulls roost;
this morning Wayne picked it up flying east behind Read's island and towards Baryon where IO was at sailing pit in readiness and it duly arrived so I took a few more images but failed to get it crashing into the pit and catching a fish before it again flew off west -
So it had found its way back after a week away - but it hadn't because when I looked at the images on the computer not only did it have a subtly different head pattern but although it also had a metal and red ring they were on the opposite legs to the first bird from last weekend - amazingly two different Caspian Terns found within a week in the same place but separately - what are the chances of that? This bird also looks a bit less mature with some grey in some of the tail feathers and lesser coverts --
Moral of the story do not assume the obvious
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