A few hours at a grey and blustery Minsmere was pretty productive as the scrapes were jam-packed full of birds, dominated by seemingly good numbers of Common Tern chicks being fed and taking their first flights (minus the one that was snatched by a Marsh Harrier of course!).
Waders were the main draw which included a good 21 Spotted Redshanks (mainly blotchy, moulting birds but a couple were still fully black stunning ones), 10 Ruff (all colours of moulting males mainly – black, white and ginger), 400+ Avocets, 210+ Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Turnstone, 4 Knot, 3 Sanderling, 41 Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpipers, 5 Green Sandpipers and a Greenshank.
Other birds comprised an adult Roseate Tern, 5 Little Gulls (adults), 2 Bitterns seen well in flight, a female Shoveler with two small ducklings, 75+ Teal (along with much reduced numbers of Gadwall since last time) and 2 Mediterranean Gulls (one juvenile).
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