The day started much the same as the first day with me visiting the beach but only the spotted sandpiper was in residence. However a fortuitous glance at the sky revealed a distant osprey carrying a fish. A little later there were 2 cruising around but they never came close enough for a decent picture.
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| Osprey (with fish|) |
Since nothing was going on on the beach I walked out to Devils Bridge – a promontory that juts out into the sea and provides one of the most westerly parts of the island and only ~ 1/2 mile walk from the hotel. The scrub I passed on the way held all the common stuff but as I reached the grass covered end of the peninsular I found 5 semi-palmated plovers. These seemed to be resident as I saw them every day I visited this site.
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| View of Devils Bridge from our room |
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| Semi-palmated Plover on Devils Bridge |
I took up station at the very end for a bit of sea watching and within a few minutes sooty terns were passing – they were too distant to get anything other than record shots that confirmed the id. Also going past were some “white” terns that at the time I couldn’t id but now think are roseate terns. A few least terns also went past.
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| Sooty Tern and (assumed) Roseate Tern |
After an hour or so I returned to the beach pool and found the green heron had returned and a superb yellow crowned night heron had turned up. This wandered around in broad daylight for ~ 30 minutes giving brilliant views.
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| Yellow Crowned Night Heron |
To top it all one of the royal terns started fishing in the bay.
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| Royal Tern |
After that it was back to the room and off to breakfast.
The rest of the day was spent cooking in the sun and drinking ............
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