...and lots more besides! Just Brian and me today - Norman has a bad back - so I decided to head down to Suffolk for a bash at the recently-present rare terns. First stop was the East Hide (pausing to admire a somewhat obscured Grasshopper Warbler) where I found a delightful Little Gull. It was obvious all the Terns were on the next scrape, so we moved to the public viewing platform, from where a delightful newly-local birder picked out a couple of distant Roseate Terns. He informed us that the Suffolk Whatsapp group were reporting the Gull-billed Tern over at Island Mere - a fair old hike! Nevertheless, we made good time and were soon enjoying fabulous views of this rarity - only my second in fifty-plus years of birding! Fleeting views of a Bittern before we adjourned for coffee and snacks and a move up on to Dunwich Heath. No Dartfords, but some interesting dragons and damsels: Magnum ice creams and then home!
(Shout out to the charming and friendly Suffolk-American birder David we met in Island Mere Hide!)
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