I can, without going through my vast and highly detailed library of bird records, state that I have never seen a Sandwich Tern in December. Amazingly I had the 2014 Norfolk Bird Report to hand this evening so I checked the latest date for a Sandwich Tern last year which was December 2nd. So the bird is potentially significant but not massively. However, I did skim randomly through some of the old reports and although there was a record for mid-December in 2008 that year and one on the 3rd in 1982, it is nonetheless unusual for a Sandwich Tern to be flying around East Norfolk in December.
However, what I can almost guarantee is that if I have seen a bird that has potential ornithological signficance it will be part of a major influx rather than an isolated bird.
Back to taking photos of the resident Crows tomorrow then.
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