Rosebush: (no sign of the R-N duck). 5 Goldeneye (3m), 4 m Tufted duck, 4 Little grebe, 2 GC grebe, Llys-y-fran: juv Iceland gull on the water at 3:30pm, 5 Yellow-legged gulls (4 adult, 1 2cy), 10 Mediterranean gulls (5 adult, 3 3cy, 2 2cy), the pair of GBB and an adult Argentatus Herring gull. 1200 BH gulls on the water early with the main flocks of larger gulls arriving, bathing and going back to the fields before finally coming down to roost around 5:20pm. A lot of gulls but very scattered and stretched down into the western arm. 4 GC grebe, 2 m Goldeneye, 2 red-headed goosanders, the Little egret was fishing around the western arm. 220 Canada geese and 23 Greylag feeding in the surrounding fields. A local farmer walking his dog, stopped to tell us a Cattle egret has been feeding with the stock in one of his fields beside the reservoir. With Paul and George.
