Saturday 27 October 2012

Newport Sat pm & a Black Headed Gull.

Highlights were an imm Goosander, 65 Wigeon, 6 Teal, 3 Pale B Brents (2 ads & a juv), 12 Turnstones (a lot for here), 11 Ringed Plovers, 9 Redshank, & 5 Little Grebes
And a more interesting than usual Cotswold water park BHGull, ringed as a pullus in June 2010, in Dec 2011 it was in NE Spain, back to its birth site in April 2012. then at Newport on Oct 18, perhaps on its way back to Spain.