Longham Lakes - Thu 10 Oct

An afternoon twitch, my first for nearly a year, and I got lucky with some great views of an American Black Tern that had been present at Longham Lakes for a few days. The bird afforded some wonderful views as it hawked for insects over the water just a few metres from the shore. Always mobile getting a phot was going to be difficult with a hand-held mobile against my 'scope, but I managed a few...one even shows the characteristic "dirty" sides diagnostic of American Black Tern in this plumage.

No time to really look around the lakes as I needed to get back, but the target bird was safely ticked off!