NWT Holme Dunes

An early morning walk provided Phil Amies with Holme’s third Caspian tern resting on the beach at Gore Point. The bird was seen by two other observers before flying off. Later in the morning a phone call from Steve Rowlands who was with his family on the beach alerted us that an osprey was heading south-east off the sea. We picked the bird up over Thornham Harbour, the bird giving us fantastic aerobatics as it attempted to hover and catch fish, amongst the irate herring gulls! Later Robert Smith drove to the harbour and found the bird on a kill, only then to find another bird flying around to the east of the harbour!