This weekend my Uncle and Aunt have been visiting from Surrey, the first time I've seen them for about seven years! I still managed a quick tour of the estuary late afternoon today though.
There were two Iceland Gulls on the estuary, the 'dark one', and I presume the 'intermediate one', though I reckon it may possibly be a new bird - it showed a distinctive dark eye-mask. It remained distant and the light was always strong but I still tried taking a few pics....
This is the best of the lot
I also came across this first winter Gull which showed a very Caspian-like head and bill, I'm not convinced by the rest of the bird but it does look on the 'leggy' side too...
There were two Iceland Gulls on the estuary, the 'dark one', and I presume the 'intermediate one', though I reckon it may possibly be a new bird - it showed a distinctive dark eye-mask. It remained distant and the light was always strong but I still tried taking a few pics....
This is the best of the lotI also came across this first winter Gull which showed a very Caspian-like head and bill, I'm not convinced by the rest of the bird but it does look on the 'leggy' side too...
See what I mean....
And again...
This would have been a much better photo had the bird actually been in focus!!After grilling the Gulls I watched from the farm gate, I was here for about half an hour and seen just 14 Little Egrets fly down river. At about 17:50 I thought I'd scan over the Bridge Marsh pool incase an early LRP had dropped in, there was indeed a small wader squatted down on the edge of the scrape. I drove round to Bridge Marsh gateway.
As the light was poor I had to walk out on to the Marsh, where I was surprised to see it was actually a Golden Plover! Even weirder was the fact it was paired up with a Dunlin! It ran around the edge of the scrape when I got too near, but just didn't want to fly off. It really SHOULD have been an American or Pacific.... one day....
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