Two Common Terns off the dam this afternoon were a welcome year tick for the patch, and rather unseasonal. I'd had a text message from fellow SBR birder Pete mid-morning and fortunately the birds were still present late afternoon, having moved from the southern arm (where Pete had found them) to a buoy just off the dam. This was my sixth patch year tick for June, compared with a big fat ZERO for the month last year!
Also present during the twenty or so minutes I was on patch this afternoon, a third-summer Great Black-backed Gull on a pontoon off the Sailing Club (this too was found by Pete earlier in the day when it had been on West Pool). A female-type Mandarin was tucked up in vegetation off the Canoe Club, and there were also two Little Egrets, one on the dam and a second opposite the "hide".
Sutton Bingham year list for 2015 now at 93 species.
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