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Message: <blockquote data-quote="choughed2bits" data-source="post: 1544084" data-attributes="member: 58712">Normally at this time i'd be into my third working hour, but not today. Aren't flexi days great?Anyway, didn't really expend a lot of effort on birding either last night or this morning - there are heaps of sandwich terns feedin in front of the house just now and my best guess is that there is in the order of a hundred or so roosting just west of Gourdon on the footpath to Johnshaven. Thankfully all very visible by scope from the front room.This morning i thought i be a bit of a nosy parker and see what was flying around the lobster boats. Nothing but the usual gulls and terns, occasional fulmars and then lo! I noticed a black tern. I followed it for maybe 3 minutes as it flew west and disappeared at or around the tern roost. Very unusual.I have checked the books and i know it is probably quite unusual for this time of year, but am prety convinced that what i saw was a black tern. I note that it was flying away from a rather strong light which probably made it appear blacker than it actually was and there was a faintly visible white undertail when it turned fully away from me. Unmistakably lazy tern like flight. I wonder if it's going to be sticking around for another couple of months or whether it's going to turn up elsewhere?That's certainly a first for me and the house and almost justifies a precious day of flexi!Happy birding,K</blockquote>