This colour-ringed (small blue ring left leg/large yellow ring right) juvenile Caspian Gull was off Mudbank this afternoon. Way too distant to read the rings and, I'll be honest, a bit too far to be 100% certain of the ring colour!
No Balearics this morning but 2 massive first-winter Yellow-legged Gulls were in with a large group of Herring Gulls on the beach. A dog walker flushed them before I could get any photos. Also on the beach - 6 Ringed Plovers but they were soon flushed too. A juvenile Common Gull at least hung around for a couple photos. A stroll round Orcombe was largely uneventful but the Cetti's Warbler was again singing from clifftop scrub. Also there - 2+ Yellow Wagtails, 1 Grey Wagtail and a fly-over, heard-only Ringed Plover.
Bystock - 1 Spotted Flycatcher and a flock of 9 Ravens over.
Another quick look off the Imperial rec as Cockle Sands was exposed revealed c200+ Common Terns still and 1 juvenile Little Tern.
Mudbank before high tide this afternoon produced 1 juvenile Caspian Gull, 40 Wigeon, 1 Pintail, 53+ Teal, 5 Dunlin, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Redshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 21 Whimbrel and c200+ Common Terns flying downriver.
An Arctic Skua off the seafront this evening.
With juvenile Herring Gull left.
Top of yellow ring on right leg just about visible here. Note the oft-quoted 'stilts for legs'.
Juvenile Common Gull on Exmouth beach this morning. I've probably seen more Caspian Gulls than Commons in this plumage!
Keeping with the gull (and crap photos) theme - here's yesterday's Kittiwake off Mudbank.
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