Arctic Tern: Seeing an early report of a little tern at penny I decided to pack up the family in the car and spend the morning locally.
With Dawn, my mum and Autumn in toe we set off and publed into John Tymon and were soon joined by Colin Davies.
Before the baby got bored we set off with the bribe of an ice cream and a ply on the park (while I go togg some tern).
These magnificent polar travelers are known to hold the record for the longest migration of any animal in the world, annually making the journey from the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Circle.
One particularly committed tern made the trip in nearly 60,000 miles, or more than twice the circumference of the planet. Terns rack up all those miles by meandering across oceans and continents rather than flying directly north or south.
During their summer passage they make regular stops to large inland lakes such as Pennington Flash to feed before moving on northwards.
Little Tern: The little tern remained pretty distant and before I arrived on the other side of the lake the bird had presumably moved on with a small group of Arctic tern around noon.
