Newgale

Two Sandwich Terns were plunge-feeding on sandeels (lesser sandeels, judging by their size) just beyond the breaking waves of the incoming tide and at times no more than ten yards from a crowd of swimmers and surfers at Newgale this afternoon. Could the sandeels have been disturbed by the bathers, making them easy prey for the Terns?

An adult Gannet, one of two fishing beyond the Terns, was harassed by a juvenile Great Black-backed Gull: when the Gannet surfaced after diving for fish, the GBB hovered over it, pecking at it. The Gannet tried to fly away but was pursued by the GBB and forced down onto the sea again, after which the GBB lost interest and flew off, perhaps realising that the Gannet had nothing to disgorge.