American Black Tern: This was my second visit to Dunge, after the infamous Arcadian flycatcher and once again it was a brief visit as I needed to head home after working in the area.
This time I was hoping to see the American black tern, a bird I missed only up the road from where I lived back in August 2012 on Eccleston Mere.
My first thoughts were that this was a particularly tricky little bird to pin down across the vast expansive lagoon and the dozen or so European black terns in the area.
But once you see it next to its much more common European cousins you can see that it is distinctive.
It's hoped that the American/European birds will be split which would then give up another life tick, so for now this little guy will sit in the bank.
