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It suddenly occurred to me that Whiskered Tern was in fact a new bird for what is probably my most valuable list that of species self found in Britain and Ireland; this list gets very few additions nowadays so it tends to be forgotten; so a quick check revealed that the list stands at 324 species in the combined Britain and Ireland and 322 in Britain (Fea's Petrel and Wilson's Petrel found only from the famed Bridge's of Ross)

the Whiskered Tern was also a year tick of course in the Scunthorpe area where that tally has risen to 173 with Nightjar and Common crossbill also recorded in the last week

No shots of the Barton Whiskered Tern so a couple of retro shots from the Coto April 2003 digi-scoped -- those were the days