coastal terns and Kitts

a bit cool and breezy on Friday at the sea but still plenty of Sandwich Terns and a few Common, a couple of juvenile Arctic and a couple of Kittiwakes north -- seem to be a lot of decent sized fish out there judging from what birds are carrying but few juvenile Sandwich amongst the throngs as yet -- one Arctic Skua seems to be indicative of the vast reduction in the number of this once regular blogger on the Lincs coast

Sandwich Terns building up

a few hours on the Lincs coast produced a decent number of Sandwich Terns, c150, very few juvs as yet, but only a few Common Terns and little else - but if you don't look you don't find and considering how few people do look in Lincs its amazing what is found

Sandwich Terns

Sandwich Terns

some nice numbers building on the Lincs coast and good to see a high percentage of fledged juvs practicing their fishing technique -- I was close to buying a Canon 1DX II then I had a spasm of common sense! enough is enough and the 5D4 must be better!

Sandwich Terns and fish

Sarnies off the Lincs coast seem to be catching a lot of these fish. not sure  what they are just sand eels? -- several young in the flock of 100 or so but only 5 Common Terns