Westfield Pill & Sandy Haven

A little saunter at Westfield Pill was nice in the fairly mild, dry and still conditions this afternoon.

I counted a possible 13 active Grey Heron nests, it will be interesting to see how many of these are successful.  A small number of gulls on the pool between the 2 weirs, amongst them 2 Mediterranean Gulls.  The adult was moulting into breeding plumage and regularly calling, the 2nd calendar year had a red ring (PMEN) which shows it was ringed in Poland.  Details have been submitted via the POLRING website, it will be interesting to see if it has been seen elsewhere since ringing.  Also a Kingfisher here.  It was very nice to bump into Allan Hanson and have a good old natter, he said the Med Gulls had been around all winter.

On the way home the 11 Whooper Swans still present in their usual field next to Sandy Haven Pill.  Presumably Iceland will be calling them north soon?