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8.0°C > 9.5°C: Low overcast. Light wind. Moderate visibility
A short stop on my way back from Australia just as an influx of large gulls arrived to wash and loaf about. Only the birds on the water counted.
(133rd visit of the year)
Notes
Little Grebe still around
3 Great Crested Grebes together: the other keeping well away
1 drake Shoveler
Now 3 pairs of Gadwall
9 drake Pochard (but rather fewer Tufted Ducks)
Gull counts expressed as ‘count when I arrived’>’count when I left’ 25 minutes later. Surprisingly high proportion of Herring Gulls in the arrivals.
The counts
1 Little Grebe
4 Great Crested Grebes
2 Swans
6 (3) Gadwall
10 (6) Mallard
1 (1) Shoveler
9 (9) Pochard
63 (42) Tufted Duck
11 Moorhens
(Coots not counted)
c.75 > c.275 Black-headed Gulls
52 > c.480 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
0 > 1 Yellow-legged Gull
0 > 133 Herring Gulls
0 > 2 Great Black-Backed Gulls
(Ed Wilson)
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On this day in 2010
Priorslee Lake
1st-winter Mediterranean Gull
500 Black-headed Gulls
Yellow-legged Gull
800 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
3 1st-year Great Black-backed Gulls
30 Herring Gulls
(Tom Lowe)
1st-winter Mediterranean Gull
500 Black-headed Gulls
Yellow-legged Gull
800 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
3 1st-year Great Black-backed Gulls
30 Herring Gulls
(Tom Lowe)