St Mary`s Bay, warm, dry and sunny, NW 3 - A stunning morning for a walk along the foreshore from Littlestone at low tide with Ted to view the dead whale washed up on the beach yesterday. Initially thought to be a Minke, closer inspection of the long, arm-like flippers confirmed it to be a Humpback Whale. It had already been roped off, awaiting disposal by the local authority; a somewhat ignominious end for such a magnificent leviathan that even in death elicited gasps of wonder from a small group of curious onlookers. En-route at least 20 Mediterranean Gulls and ten Sandwich Terns were also noted on the sand bars.
Moving onto Lade where numerous Red Admirals, Hedge Browns and a couple of Jersey Tigers were basking in the lee of the cool north-westerly along the track beside the caravan park. Ten Common Terns fished over south lake along with several Mediterranean Gulls and two Common Sandpipers around the margins, otherwise there wasn`t much change from the other day.
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