Spent the day at Gibralter Point where we had a lovely day but didn’t see much so decided to call in at Horse Shoe Point on the way home for the high tide roost of Terns. It turned in to one of those evenings that will stay in the memory for a long time - the light and the weather couldn’t have been better and as we walked out on the beach we could see Terns beginning to congregate and eventually we estimated 2000 Common Terns, 3 Little Terns , 1 Black Tern, 2 Little Stints and thousand of Ringer Plover, Dunlin, Godwits, Knot and there right in front of us 2 Buff Breasted Sandpipers standing out in perfect light just waiting to have stunning photos taken alas within a minute of me trying to send texts and Wayne trying to delete a full memory card we lost them and despite two hours of searching the beach and neighbouring ploughed field where hundreds of Golden Plover were roosting we never saw them again - moral of the story forget the phone, always have space on your memory card and never take your eye off the bird.
The thin white line in the distance is a mass of Common Terns and Gulls.
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