{"id":580,"date":"2012-07-08T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=580"},"modified":"2020-04-04T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:09:24","slug":"sandwich-terns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Sandwich Terns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few photo\u2019s from a brief visit to the Sandwich Tern colony at the DWT reserve on Brownsea Island. The noise and non-stop action certainly helped to make it a memorable visit.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Sandwich Terns there\u2019s was also several pairs of Common Terns and a single pair of the rare Roseate Terns. Unfortunately the Roseate\u2019s were too far away to photograph. Perhaps one for next year if there\u2019s still a few pairs on Inner Farne.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Sandwich Tern in flight\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1414_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwich Tern in flight\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1354.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Sandwich Tern in flight\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1354_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwich Tern in flight\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Sandwich Tern with Sandeel\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1261_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwich Tern with Sandeel\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Sandwich Tern bringing in a Sand-eel<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Sandwich Tern with Sandeel\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1303_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwich Tern with Sandeel\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>and another one<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Sandwich Tern Colony\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1281_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwich Tern Colony\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>and yet another<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Sandwich Tern in flight\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1350_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwich Tern in flight\" width=\"600\" height=\"903\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Apparently the day before our visit a Nightjar had spent all day roosting on one of the posts holding up the screens at the edge of the causeway to the MacDonald Hide &#8211; typical. Fortunately we were lucky enough to experience them flying over us at Arne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few photo\u2019s from a brief visit to the Sandwich Tern colony at the DWT reserve on Brownsea Island. The noise and non-stop action certainly helped to make it a memorable visit. 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