GORING GAP:
Trektellen. Gulls featured strongly today with our second
Caspian Gull of the year for the Gap (and all time), a juvenile moulting into first-winter plumage, roosting in the southwest field this morning. Two
Yellow-legged Gulls (1CY and 3CY), the first juvenile
Great Black-backed Gull of the year and 10
Lesser Black-backed Gulls were also seen but
Common Gull numbers remained low at just three.
Sandwich Terns have begun to use the field, with 22 there today.
Ringed Plovers increased to 60 - in the field late morning, along with 18
Turnstones. The beach held 22
Little Egrets, 11
Oystercatchers and two
Dunlin. Passerine migrants included two
Tree Pipits and six
Yellow Wagtails overhead, a female
Redstart at the pumping station, a singing male
Firecrest along Ilex Avenue, a
Whinchat and a
Reed Warbler by the dead-end road, three
Whitethroats, a
Blackcap, seven
Willow Warblers and a
Pied Wagtail. The
Treecreeper was still in the Plantation. A half-hour seawatch in dire conditions around midday produced two
Grey Plovers, two
Fulmars and three
Sandwich Terns.
DKC/NB
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| 1CY Caspian Gull |
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| 1CY Caspian Gull |
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| 1CY Yellow-legged Gull |
