When birders see a distant tern out at sea they often refer to it as a Commic Tern. This name comes about as a result of joining the two similar tern species’ names, Common Tern and Arctic Tern. Clever aye?
Well at Lodmoor there’s the potential for a real comic tern as an Arctic Tern is holding a territory amongst the Common Terns. This is presumably the same bird that bred with a common last year but they failed to fledge their single chick which they managed to hatch. This afternoon I went over in the hope of a picture or two of our confused Arctic Tern but failed so here a picture of a Common Tern instead.
Also at Lodmoor were three rather odd looking hybrid Geese. They seemed to be Greylag x Canada Geese.
It was also really good to see some fledgling House Sparrows. I blogged a few weeks ago about house sparrows seen taking nest material into hedges, so I wonder if these little chaps were born and raised in on of the Lodmoor hedges?