"Elsie", the Lesser-crested Tern

A recurring visitor to the Farne Islands since 1984, "Elsie"(L.C.) returned to Brownsman Island on 7th May 1989.

(Photograph by B. Robson)

After display with a Sandwich Tern an egg was found on 28th May. Both Sandwich and Lesser-crested Tern Incubated the egg until it hatched on19th June.The chick was fed and brooded by Elsie until 1st July when they both disappeared. A Lesser-crested Tern and a Sandwich Tern feeding what appeared to be a juvenile Lesser-crested Tern were seen at Musselburgh, Firth of Forth, between the 7th and 18th August. What does it, and any other offspring, look like now??

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