After a hard overnight frost most of the freshwater pools were
frozen, the remaining open water was a magnet for bathing Gulls. An afternoon watch produced a nice
selection of Larids coming in to bathe, including the wintering Glaucous, yesterday's Iceland, an adult
Yellow-legged and an interesting yellow-legged `argentatus` Herring Gull which is sometimes referred to as 'omissus'.
Glaucous Gull
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'Omissus' type Herring Gull
Offshore
56 Common Scoters west, 1 Goldeneye east, 12
Red-breasted mergansers, 19 Red-throated Divers west & 3 on the sea, 1 Great Crested Grebe
west, 1 Guillemot west and 7 Auk sp. west.
Visible migration
350 Pink-footed Geese north.
Others:
7 Goldeneyes, 1 Merlin, 1 Peregrine, 1 Water Rail, 36
Ringed Plovers, 750 Knots, 100 Sanderlings, 500 Dunlins, 14 Snipe, 160 Black-tailed Godwits, 1
Med. Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Iceland Gull, 1 Glaucous Gull, 1 Shore Lark, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 4
Stonechats and 45 Twite.
Iceland Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
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