Mainly Gulling Again!

A lovely morning at The Patch where the Glaucous Gull performed beautifully in the beach roost and around the power station. In the roost a couple of new colour rings and several repeats, all Rainham/Pitsea Herring Gulls & Norwegian Great Black Backed Gulls.

Offshore there small numbers of Guillemots, Razorbills, Gannets and 11 Brent Geese that flew up channel.

 1w Glaucous Gull at the Patch this morning

1w Glaucous Gull at the Patch this morning

 1w Glaucous Gull at the Patch this morning

 1w Glaucous Gull at the Patch this morning

At the fishing boats the 1w Caspian Gull was performing well in return for a few slices of bread, offshore an adult Little Gull was feeding along the colour change along with a few Kittiwakes, Auks, Grebes and a couple of Red-throated Divers.

1w Caspian Gull at the fishing boats  

1w Caspian Gull at the fishing boats 

At Scotney with the weather deteriorating the 2 Tundra Bean Geese spent most their time asleep among the Greylags and Barnacles, but very little else of note there.
From Dengemarsh Lane 2 Great White Egrets, c300 Golden Plover, c500 Lapwing, 8 Curlew and the usual feral Geese.
3 Smew and 2 Goosander were reported from the reserve along with Slavonian Grebe, a Firecrest, Bitterns and Marsh Harriers.