Peter Tonkin and I revisited Devoran Quay today looking for perhaps one last encounter with its annual migratory Osprey which have been showing well over the last Month.
We had the incoming tide, The fish in the estuary were rising well and good weather with very light winds but it seems we were a day or two too late to catch the last of the migration Osprey.
Our consolation prize came by way of a couple of Sandwich Terns that put on several bouts of fishing for small mullet between rest periods on a mid river sand bank.
These graceful birds were very skillful hunters taking small fish on around 75% of their dives and on the last one that I followed it emerged with two fish for the price of one dive.
They provided us with an interesting subject to work with for the duration of our visit and we will of course be back again a bit earlier next autumn for the Osprey migration.
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