Snapped this Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) while I was crossing the Channel on my way to London.

Birding @ Scheveningen Beach

As I prepare to leave my home for the last two years in Rotterdam, I made a small trip to the Scheveningen Beach in The Hague. While strolling down the cold sandy beach I laid my eyes on a lot of bird activity on a small rocky pier covered in green sea weed and moss.The main inhabitants were the Herring gulls (Larus argentatus)
But on closer inspection I found some Ruddy Turnstones (Arenaria interpres) amidst the Gulls. Though these are quiet common waders in this part of the world and also quiet frequently sighted along coastal areas back home in India (And surely at Uran and Sewri in Mumbai) I always managed to miss them, although I am not sure if I had seen them in Uran during the first Mumbai Bird Race.
So most probably this is another 'lifer'. Here some more snaps of the Turnstones.

I shall end this (probably) last posting as a Dutch Resident with this snap of the sun setting into the North Sea.