31 Aug 2009
A bank holiday visit to Farmoor to see the white-winged tern and American black tern. Quite a big twitch – a line up of about 40 ‘scopes by the tower. The American black tern was the big attraction (only the third for the UK), but the white-winged was just as interesting for me as I had never seen one before. The ABT does not count as a tick anyway as it does not have full species status, being considered a sub-species of black tern. A black tern made up a nice trio of marsh terns.
