5 - 7pm. Weather: bright, sunny & hot; slight breeze.
Seal-watching boat trip from Morston out across the harbour to the point with the family. Although we were let down by Bean's, who sold our places when we arrived 5 minutes late, we soon hopped on to a Temples boat & were away for a great excursion. After the seal we were dropped off onto the point for a brief exploration before being picked up an hour later.
Morston Harbour:
Redshank, Black-Headed Gull, Common Tern.
Blakeney Point:
Sandwich Tern - many around the harbour but the main spectacle was the large breeding colony at the end of the point; it was sizeable & noisy!
Little Tern - several amongst the sandwiches & commons, our boat's captain said that there is a small colony on the point.
Oystercatcher.
Grey Seal - several lounging in the shallows on the far extremity of the point. We got so close that you could smell them & they didn't seem overly peturbed by the boats though occasionally some would take fright & shuffle back into the water. The area was thick with boats of some shape or form & some disturbance must occur fairly frequently.
Common Seal - a couple in with the greys.
Lesser Black-Backed Gull - as I walked along the spit as I waited for the boat to return.
Meadow Pipit - along the spit as I waited for the boat to return; it was reluctant to fly.
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