Farne Islands, Northumberland  June 2012


Long Nanny, Northumberland  June 2007

adult

Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

St. Mary’s Island, Northumberland  August 2008

juvenile

Stag Rocks, Northumberland  September 2011

juvenile

Farne Islands, Northumberland  June 2015


Long Nanny, Northumberland  June 2009


Long Nanny, Northumberland  June 2015


Long Nanny, Northumberland  June 2014

unusual un-marked egg - perhaps the product of two females

laying in the same nest after high tides washed over the colony

Farne Islands, Northumberland  June 2014


Arctic & Common Terns autumn juvenile Arctic Tern Back to British Birds  -  Non-passerines

St. Mary’s Island, Northumberland  July 2024

first-summer bird