Sutton Bingham - Tue 29 Aug

A pre-work visit today produced a juvenile Arctic Tern on one of the buoys on the main reservoir, always a little distant so no decent photograph but it was great to see as Arctic Terns are pretty scarce on patch, this juvenile is my third this year following two adults in the Spring.

I then took a look at the southern end where the Greenshank was still present along with a couple of Common Sandpipers (there were also two on West Pool when I arrived on site but they flew south down the reservoir so possibly the same birds).

Then I got a real surprise as a flock of nine Cattle Egrets flew south down the arm and kept going, the new largest single count for the site! They were closely followed by the Arctic Tern as that also left to the south.