Lesser Crested Tern

12th December 2025. 2025 ended with a new bird for me, with a rare Lesser Crested Tern on the Exe estuary in Devon. Found a few days before, it had been showing at different viewpoints around the area untill it settled at Turf, where it was being a little more reliable as it rested on the bouys and occasionally made some flybys, A lovely sunny day , although I did ( rather foolishly) have to negotiate some fair old floods on the road in . The Tern was present ,sat on a bouy preening not too far out. I stuck around and was thrilled when it took to the air and flew close by, allowing for some great views and some nice photos. Cracking bird.