Monday 22 February 2016

Wintersett + Gull Roosts 22.02.16

3 - 6 degrees, mainly cloudy with a westerly breeze.
Anglers CP: Oystercatcher 6 (3 pairs),  Shoveler 4,  Jack Snipe 2, Snipe 10 and Green Woodpecker 2.
Wintersett Res: 2 singing male Cetti's Warblers today - 1 boathouse reeds and 1 west bank.  Grey Wagtail 1.
Both Gull Roosts were watched this afternoon.  A 1st W Mediterranean Gull was on WRes at 17.13hrs.   Numbers were building nicely when two youths (not PS's word) started throwing stones from the boathouse house area causing a mass dread.  The majority of birds flew to ACP at 17.45hrs where Jonathan Holliday had a 1stW Caspian Gull at 17.30hrs,  Psycho the adult Yellow-legged Gull at 17.40hrs,  another 1stW Caspian Gull at 17.50hrs and the leucistic Black-headed Gull. 
Herring Gull 1100 (800 ACP + 300 WRes)  and  Great Black-backed Gull 66 (60 ACP + 6 WRes).

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