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Hi,
This late afternoon/early evening I headed out towards Fisherman's Reserve. I drove out towards Fisherman's Reserve and at the end of the cove left hand side of the causeway I found a group of shorebirds. Nice to see SB-Dowitchers early in the season in nearly breeding plumage, some already showed first moulting signs. I counted 45 dowitchers and 21 willets. Being spared from heavy rain, which I passed on the way out of town, I proceeded to the reserve to the end of the road. I was pleased to find nesting terns on the sandspit close to the sheds. Light wasn't favourable so I would call them Artic for now. Counted ~ 5 glued down to the ground and about the same number airborne, divebombing gulls. Two adults where carrying food to the nests, and in two nests I could see heads of downy chicks -not the ones visited by the fish carrying adults. Gulls are nesting on the island as well, Greater black-backed and Herring, with many chicks begging for food (two or three per
adult). I remember that terns used to nest in this location many years ago, but in recent years none where using the site. The current hardly qualifies as a colony, but a handful is better than none.
Cheers
Ulli
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Hi,<br><br>This late afternoon/early evening I headed out towards Fisherman's Reserve. I drove out towards Fisherman's Reserve and at the end of the cove left hand side of the causeway I found a group of shorebirds. Nice to see SB-Dowitchers early in the season in nearly breeding plumage, some already showed first moulting signs. I counted 45 dowitchers and 21 willets. Being spared from heavy rain, which I passed on the way out of town, I proceeded to the reserve to the end of the road. I was pleased to find nesting terns on the sandspit close to the sheds. Light wasn't favourable so I would call them Artic for now. Counted ~ 5 glued down to the ground and about the same number airborne, divebombing gulls. Two adults where carrying food to the nests, and in two nests I could see heads of downy chicks -not the ones visited by the fish carrying adults. Gulls are nesting on the island as well, Greater black-backed and Herring, with
many chicks begging for food (two or three per adult). I remember that terns used to nest in this location many years ago, but in recent years none where using the site. The current hardly qualifies as a colony, but a handful is better than none.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Ulli <br><p> 
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