A very light southerly wind with an almost calm sea but despite being mostly distant there were still a few birds going past offshore. A three hour watch included 11 Pomarine Skuas comprising flocks of two and nine and an incredible flock of 17 Cattle Egrets.
Early afternoon I received a message at 14:07 from Craig Edwards, the RSPB Reserves Manager that a Whiskered Tern was on Dengemarsh viewed from Dengemarsh Hide. I called MC and then had to call him back as the bird had flown north. MC, RW and I started to check the various water bodies on the reserve and on checking New Excavations I re-found the tern sitting on a post. Unfortunately a Marsh Harrier caused it to take off and fly towards Burrowes Pit. Locals started to arrive at Makepeace Hide but there was no sign so the search began again until Jacob radioed that he had re-located it on ARC where most of the Locals managed to obtain views before at 15:53 it flew back towards the New Excavations/Dengemarsh area but despite searching could not be relocated until 18:51 when relocated on Hookers by GP.
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