Saturday 29 June 2013

Roseate Tern, River Clwyd, midday 29th June 2013

Stuck around for me to get some digiscoped snaps, pink tinge more obvious in these with saturation ramped up slightly.



6 comments:

  1. Great Pete- lovely colours. Still present 3pm.

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  2. Cracking find Marc! Was amazing how it just jumped out at you

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  3. As this bird is unringed i'm guessing it's not from a UK or Ireland breeding colony. Birds from Coquet are ringed on both legs and I believe the same happens at Rockabill. Wonder what it's origins are?!

    Nice find Marc.

    Henerz.

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  4. We were saying the same thing Henerz. Apparently the Cemlyn bird is unringed too. The last three I've seen in Conwy- two on Llanfairfechan salt marsh and the other in exactly the same place as this one some five years ago, all had a silver ring in both legs. In fact, I always thought it was a good way of identifying Roseate until this bird!

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  5. A couple of common terns joined it later on which were nice. Brilliant find though Marc

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  6. Pity the bird has not returned today. Could not get there yesterday sadly. Hopefully it might come back. Cracking shots Pete.

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