A pretty miserable day, more like autumn than mid-summer. Not until 1900h did the sun manage to show in a few gaps in the cloud.
News of the second Common Tern that I saw with a colour ring at Stanford reservoir. Like the other one, this too was ringed as a nestling at Brandon marsh, on July 1 2014. This was 723 days after ringing, so will have flown a good few miles since then to turn up only 22 Km to the west of the ringing site.
The first one was ringed July 21 2013, a year earlier or 1061 days prior to my sighting.
As mentioned before we have no nesting rafts at Stanford due to storm damage, but hopefully these can be re-instated in time for next season and the Terns can nest again.
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