What follows a rain storm!!

It certainly did not seem like a promising morning, sunshine slightly overcast and not raining. Mind you that was not the forecast, then when is it ever.

Things were slow on arrival at around 11:00, the place was lively but not exciting. But that was about to change as the rain started, a nice light shower someone said! yeah right. what followed was reminiscent of the monsoons and downpours of the tropics.
The statement " lets hope something drops in either during or after this" certainly held good as ten minutes after the rain stopped a juvenile Arctic tern appeared, this certainly gave the Lapwing something to do for the next few minutes. It would seem they knew after a very short time that the chase was pointless.

And if that was not enough to annoy the dickens out of the tern the Black headed gulls were their diligent selves especially where there might be an opportunity of a free meal. So there was no rest, or at least very little as the Arctic tern was harried from pillar to post, or rather island to island.

So it was a nice appearance and broke the run of Kingfisher, even if there were three chasing around, but who can resist them when they stop in front of you and pose so well?

So there you go all this and fighting Buzzards with , again a Hobby over the trees to the rear of the reserve.