Dungeness -mild, cloudy, w 3 - 1100hrs - Gulls do tend to split birders into two camps; a bit like Marmite, you either I love `em or loathe `em. Personally, I`ve not got much love for Herring Gulls as living along the coast the buggers are a nightmare in spring and summer, crapping everywhere, screaming from roof-top nest sites and general dishing out grief to all and sundry. As for the rest of the tribe, Caspian and Yellow-legs, I can take `em or leave `em, although the former are growing on me.
However, `proper` gulls are a different matter, particularly those from the polar regions, and they don't come much more spectacular than the
Glaucous Gull, a great brute of a bird and highly entertaining as it goes about bullying its relatives, so it was good to watch a first winter bird in action along the foreshore by the fishing boats this morning.
1st winter Caspian Gull
1st winter Glaucous Gull
Lade - No real change here with the
Long-tailed Duck still distant and continually diving on south lake, while the
Slavonian Grebe had moved to north lake along with two
Goosanders.
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