George, Fiona and I did the gull count this evening to avoid the wild weather that's forecast for tomorrow. About 100 LBBs at 4:30pm increased gradually to 430 (5:30pm), 1350 (6pm), 3600 (6:30pm), with a final count of 5900 at 7pm. More gulls were still arriving so this likely topped 6,000. 68 Herring gull, 15 BH gull, single adult GBB and 4 adult Yellow-legged gulls.
The 5 Pink-footed geese were still in the field opposite keeping well away from the other geese and always on alert. The Canada geese were scattered at various spots on the reservoir with 2 or 3 Greylags among them. Greylag numbers had increased with a flock of 150 in the field opposite. Lovely calm evening, going to be a little different tomorrow it seems.