Hornsea Mere (2) - 31st August 2021

Leucistic Arctic Tern

For a change, I headed out to Hornsea Mere and stood in the light rain, looking at very little! Several walks around Kirkholm Point and still nothing to point the camera at! The weather brightened and then rained again and still nothing! Perseverance paid off, however, and my short time on the point turned out to be an "out of nowhere" experience! As the rain eased, a small number of Little Gulls appeared "out of nowhere". Again, "out of nowhere" also appeared the leucistic Arctic Tern. Very nice to see, just a pity the sun didn't appear "out of nowhere"!

A two camera day, these are courtesy of my Canon 7D Mk2 and 400mm 5.6 lens.

Grey Heron in the rain and gloom!

Little Gulls

The Little Gull to the fore in the next two images, was not well. When it tried to walk it wobbled badly, but when it took off, its flight was equally erratic. Sad to see.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a Swallow? No, it's a poorly captured leucistic Arctic Tern!

All images taken handheld with Canon 7D Mk2 and 400mm 5.6 lens.