We head off to Minsmere in search of a Roseate Tern reported a few times as being seen from the public hide on the south scrape.
Once in the hide we see over 20 Little Gulls some in nice breeding plumage plus one Little Tern lots of Sandwich Tern & Common Tern numerous Med Gulls plus picking out 3 Kittiwakes.
Over the 5 hours spent here we see 5 Spotted Redshank, Green & Common Sandpiper, some Redshank plenty of Ringed Plovers both on the scrape & up on the beach, while by the beach Stonechat & both Lesser & Whitethroat seen in the bushes.
A walk around the reserve gets us some Bearded Tits & we spend a good deal of time watching the close up views of the wonderful Swallows.In the bushes around the reserve loads of Willow & Sedge Warbler spotted.
On the walk round to South hide we find a Dragon fly to photograph & when we get home Jimmy does some home work on it as he cannot find a photo of it anywhere he puts it on twitter & gets a good response from people telling him they think it is a Vagrant Emperor & a little while later the recorder confirms that it is indeed that.
But after having a really great 5 or so hours we have to concede that we will not be seeing the Roseate Tern such a shame as it would have been a lifer for me, still if I really wanted to put myself out I am sure I would get to see some, but not wanting to drive massive distances I will have to wait for one to come near enough for me to drive and see or when Brian drives us on long trips maybe some will be around, come to think of it Brian does the most of the little trips as well.
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