Three
Barnacle Geese heading west was the most random sighting of the morning and a tidy patch tick. Three
Mediterranean Gulls, including two fine juveniles, were milling around and later on a juvenile
Yellow-legged Gull - my first of the year - was floating just offshore before it flew east. Walking home along the seafront, my pulse raced slightly when I spotted four more large juvenile gulls on distant mud but they all quickly resolved to be
Herring Gulls. So much for the early July grace period for YLGs... Other highlights from the morning included six
Common Scoters, a/the
Peregrine, two
Swallows, two
Pied Wagtails overhead, a 2CY
Common Gull, a
Gannet, five
Little Egrets, an
Oystercatcher, a
Curlew, two
Sandwich Terns, a
Coal Tit,
Goldcrest and three
Whitethroats.
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| Barnacle Geese |
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| juvenile Yellow-legged Gull |
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| juvenile Yellow-legged Gull |
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| juvenile Mediterranean Gull |
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| Little Egrets |
