Gulls took an age to come in, many not appearing until it was almost dark, I dare say the fine weather and whiff of slurry had something to do with it. A lot of the gulls were bathing vigorously, presumably to rid themselves of the slurry from the fields they've been feeding in and going back to the same fields even past dusk. Unusually the majority of those on the water were Herring gulls - have the LBBs already headed off to their breeding quarters or were they feeding somewhere? No Yellow-legged gulls, presumably these stick with the LBBs wherever those are. 3 Mediterranean gulls (2 adults and a 2cy). Pick of the limited gull roost was an adult Caspian (quite a small gull, so presumably a female) and a juv Glaucous gull at 4:40pm. 4 GC grebe, 2 Little grebe and a pair Goldeneye.
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