4/5-08-07 Sat/ Sun, White Winged Tern

Spent the weekend not doing hardly any birding other than Saturday late afternoon went to St Mary’s but nothing much doing and Sunday called into the Vintage vehicle rally on the way up the coast but stayed all day, in the late afternoon I thought we would walk down to the outfall of Chevington to stretch the legs and have a look for Roseate Terns, but at one of the hides I looked out and found an Adult Summer White Winged Tern looking rather splendid in the afternoon light it spent most of the time at the very North end but did land on the Island a couple of times where I got a couple of digiscoped shots as well as some flight shots, phoned in the info and later could see a few birders down at the South end looking up it ,landed on the island again and had a bathe in a small pool but blocked by a Lapwing as far as a photo went ,looking tiny behind this, they always look larger in flight probably the darker plumage, the Lapwing moved and I got a couple of shots one with its wings open but at to slow a shutter speed with Digiscope you get what you get, a very nice bird and a surprising end to the weekend we never did get as far as the outflow. Digiscoped image White-winged Tern East Chevington

Digiscoped image White winged Tern East Chevington