Just watching the end of the Man utd Arsenal match when Jimmy comes down stairs with a text from Brian, do we want to try for the first winter Forster's Tern at Mistley in Essex, 10 minutes later we are in the car heading up the A12.
It's coming up to 2. 30 so we hope the light holds for us as it's 60 miles away & it's not the brightest of days.
When we arrive on the Quay there are only two other birders present & we are told that the bird was still about but had just flown further out over the Bay & was lost to sight, not looking good for us.
By now birders were arriving in numbers & we all got rewarded when Jimmy calls that the bird is in his scope & heading straight towards us, it flies right in then turns right to give us a good side view.
We hang about until the light goes but it's the only sighting we get, so not a long view but a good one.
I am told this is only the 2nd Essex tick & the first Suffolk tick which pleased a few people around us.This is a lifer for all three of us & a right unexpected one at that.
And some how Arsenal got a very undeserved equaliser to earn a draw so a very good afternoon for us all.
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