Little Tern Wardening

 17th May

Second Monday morning at Castle Coote but this time I decided to walk there as the previous rain must have made the track a bit slippery. Its about three quarters of an hour to get there, about two miles and the weather was dark and gloomy with rain threatening which somehow didn't happen.  I wondered why I went today in such weather as the tide was out as well so there wouldn't be much to see..........and there wasn't.

However, I saw 3-4 corn buntings, 2 wheatears, 5 yellow wagtails, lots of skylarks, reed buntings and sedges, 1 kestrel, 2 lesser blk backed gulls, 2 redshanks, 4 oystercatchers and a couple of ringed plovers. On the walk back I saw a painted lady and my first small heath.

PM., visit to see some terns but were distant however, 4 gannets were a better as a new year tick

                                                       The eider making itself comfy

                                                                           Corn Bunting

                                     Linnet nesting on seaward side of the wall in bramble

Spent time photographing this spider as it spun its web, the silk coming from this gland underneath it.