22/11/2021

Todays excellent sea watch, nothing unusual, just good variety and numbers. Thanks to Sam & Tony for collating all the numbers. CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO SEE A FULL SIZE VERSION OF IT.

An excellent afternoon in the company of David Walker in Dennis's Hide, where at least 12 Caspian Gulls including a Lithuanian yellow ringed 2w and a Green ringed Polish adult, also 2 adult Yellow-legged Gulls all came into Burrowes, also an Avocet, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 6 Dunlin and a Goldeneye there. 

There may well have been more further up the pit, but I was not prepared to stand on a cold bleak viewpoint freezing, getting a soaking while staring through a scope that is shaking in the wind that howls through the viewpoints, especially on a day like today of which there will be many over the next few months. I don't suppose the RSPB will be welcoming back all people that purportedly said viewpoints were better than hides, until at least next summer.😡

Lithuaanian yellow ringed 2w Caspian Gull (7LC5) and an adult

Polish green ringed adult Caspian Gull (76P0)

2w Caspian Gull

Adult Caspian Gull

Retarded 2w Caspian Gull

4th cal year Caspian Gull

Adult Caspian Gull

4th Cal year Caspian Gull

4th cal year Caspian Gull and Avocet

4th Cal year Caspian Gull

Adult Yellow-legged Gull

Avocet

As I left the reserve this afternoon 6 Cattle Egrets were feeding in the Boulderwall Fields