Just back from Baltray and our youngest Little Tern chicks are doing fine.  They are a distance from each other and the parents at the more northerly side are very protective, whichever side of the nesting enclosure you are.  2 joggers came up on the sea side of the enclosure and the Terns made such a racket that they stopped, read the signs and moved away altogether.  On the south side, I had great difficulty locating the 2 youngest chicks and it was only when I went up to the end and moved out towards the sea and looked back up the enclosure that I spotted chicks well outside and hiding behind a mound of sand and seaweed. 

A Kestral flew down along the nesting enclosure, chased and harassed by 8 or 10 Terns.  It continued into the sand dunes where it started hunting.  A Merlin went after the chicks yesterday and was chased away by the volunteer on duty.  The wardening is important at this late stage as these youngest chicks are still very vulnerable.