This second-summer/third-winter Yellow-legged Gull was roosting on the cricket pitch this morning. The regular third-summer/fourth winter was roosting on the Imperial rugby ground.
A sea-watch from the raised beach huts this morning, from 0615 - 0815. Really busy for the first hour or so and then really disappointingly quiet. A continuous procession of Gannets (and plenty of Kittiwakes) was augmented with 6 Balearic Shearwaters, 4 Manx Shearwaters, 5 shearwater sp (Balearic/Manx), 7 Arctic Skuas, 3 skua sp (Arctic or Long-tailed), 7 Sandwich Terns, 5 Fulmars and 7 Common Scoters. Best bird was a juvenile Black Tern that went through with a sizeable flock of Kittiwakes. Yellow-legged Gulls were on the cricket pitch (2s/3w) and the Imperial rugby ground (the regular 3s/4w).
Mudbank counts included 24 Mute Swans, c30/40+ Teal, 5 Wigeon, 1 Shoveler, 7 Shelduck, 5+ Sandwich Terns, 1 Common Tern, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit and 1 or 2 Mediterranean Gulls. Off Shelly Beach - 14+ Sandwich Terns and 6 Ringed Plovers.
Colour-ringed Herring Gull - cricket pitch.
A Shoveler, presumably yesterday's bird, was again off Mudbank this morning. Seven Shelduck off there too.
Lesser Black-backed Gull - cricket pitch.
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