The usual second winter Iceland Gull roosted night along with an adult Mediterranean Gull.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Jan 6 5:53 PM, 2018
Two Iceland Gulls roosted this afternoon, the usual second winter and an adult.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
dave broome said
Thu Jan 4 8:01 PM, 2018
2nd-winter Yellow-Legged Gull in the roost tonight 97 Great Black-Backed Gull and a leucistic Black-Headed Gull also present c1200 Jackdaw roosted
-- Edited by dave broome on Thursday 4th of January 2018 08:02:12 PM
JOHN TYMON said
Thu Jan 4 5:55 PM, 2018
Of note pm
Yellow Legged Gull - 1 Adult ,same bird as the other week for me
Goosander-21
Water Rail - 2 showing well from Bunting Hide
Pochard - 1 Male
plus the usuals :)
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Jan 3 8:07 PM, 2018
Highlights from today:
Peregrine
Little Egret
20 Goosander
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Dave Ousey said
Tue Jan 2 11:03 PM, 2018
Second winter Yellow legged Gull seen today at 3pm.
David Ousey
Andy Isherwood said
Mon Jan 1 12:28 PM, 2018
56 Species this am including 5 Siskin, at least 7 Willow Tit at various points and the regular 3rd Winter Yellow Legged Gull sat on the Orange bouy in East bay at 11.30 to at least 11.45am.
Two Little Egret currently from Teal Hide at the minute.
JOHN TYMON said
Sat Dec 30 4:31 PM, 2017
Yellow Legged Gull - 1 3rd winter down to 10 feet today regularly under car park . Little Egret-2 (1 on teal ,1 on westleigh brook) Teal-45 Shelduck-1... Goosander - 22 Cormorant-28 Snipe-2 Tufted Duck - 45 (massively down on the norm) Great Crested Grebe-21 (again well down) Goldeneye-12 ( low number) Bullfinch-6 Kingfisher-2 plus the usuals.
picture 3rd w yellow legged gull
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 31st of December 2017 07:51:43 AM
Couldn't find anything special in the Gull Roost although I did only have Bins.
JOHN TYMON said
Wed Dec 27 7:01 PM, 2017
Excellent if very cold afternoon at the flash of note
Yellow Legged Gull - 2 = 1 x 3rd Winter (Regular bird) and a pristine new Adult that arrived at the same time as the regular bird and at times the regular bird was interacting and displaying to the Adult bird ,both arrived at 2.30 and the Adult flew high circling about 3.30 and was lost after that - record shot of the new Adult bird below.
Iceland Gull - 1 x 2nd Winter that again came in after dark at about 4.20 (found by Phil Rhodes)
Kestrel- 2
Sparrowhawk-1
Cormorant -32
Goosander-21
Wildfowl numbers seem very low,ive never seen so few Tufted Duck at this time of year ,probably no more than 50. where we would not long ago have 500 at this time of year.
Pictures new Adult Yellow Legged Gull
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Wednesday 27th of December 2017 07:54:27 PM
The regular third winter Yellow-legged Gull roosted again this afternoon.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
colin davies said
Mon Dec 25 11:36 AM, 2017
3rd winter yellow-legged gull again on the buoys next to the spit or near the gap in the east bay. It's looking a really smart bird now, and is still easy to pick out despite many of the argentatus herring gulls acquiring their white heads. In the photo it's the bird on the water. Also around 20 goosanders, 12 goldeneye and 30 lapwings.
Highlights included; Grey wagtail, treecreeper, nuthatch very briefly, redwing, mistle and song thrush, goldeneye, goosander, plus the usual stock dove, willow tit and reed bunting. (Just to note- I was stunned also to see 23 squirrels in one area together)
Also worthy to note was a good variety of gull variations (which was a good learning curve), a great black backed gull, one wigeon, gadwall, teal, shoveler and a 2 minute window of bright blue sky, at least it reminded me what colour the sky is supposed to be!
JOHN TYMON said
Sat Dec 23 7:34 PM, 2017
Pm of note
2 Adult Mediterranean gull
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Dec 23 9:12 AM, 2017
Highlights so far this morning:
Little Egret
22 Snipe
11 Pink-footed Geese over east
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Dec 23 9:11 AM, 2017
An adult Mediterranean Gull roosted yesterday evening.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
JOHN TYMON said
Sat Dec 23 6:37 AM, 2017
22.12.2017 pm
The flash was pretty quiet today and the smallest Gull roost I can remember recently ,and they all decided to go right under the boat clubs in the fog,so all I managed to pick out was a Adult Yellow Legged Gull ,and other things of note were 25 Goosander and 10 Goldeneye and about 200 Lapwing,a Kingfisher and that was about it really :)
JOHN TYMON said
Thu Dec 21 7:32 PM, 2017
This Afternoon with Colin Davies
Goosander-26
Oystercatcher-2
Yellow Legged Gull - 4 ( 2 Adult,1 x 3rd Winter,1 x 2nd Winter)
Iceland Gull - 1 2nd Winter
Little Egret -1
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 22nd of December 2017 06:58:22 AM
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Dec 21 11:24 AM, 2017
Two Oystercatcher present this morning.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
colin davies said
Tue Dec 19 4:28 PM, 2017
In the roost tonight,
1 Iceland gull 2nd winter
1 Yellow-legged gull 3rd winter
steven burke said
Sun Dec 17 6:32 PM, 2017
Afternoon visit but left at 3.25pm as the weather got worse.
3rd winter yellow-legged gull A single whooper Swan flew over the car park at 3.20pm heading north west. 15+ goosander
JOHN TYMON said
Sun Dec 17 7:57 AM, 2017
Pennington Flash -16.12.2017 - Another special day at the flash one of those where much of the place was frozen and also mist ,foggy ,cold ,not many people and full of birds .It started off with some good wildfowl numbers,with 98 Teal on the ice in ramsdales,26 Goosander,25 Shoveler,7 Dabchick,24 Great Crested Grebe,2 Male Pochard and 45 Cormorants including a nice sinensis race bird.The 3rd winter Yellow Legged Gull was present as usual, then a Male Merlin flashed through ,putting up all the teal as it headed North.
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 17th of December 2017 08:54:08 AM
steven burke said
Sat Dec 16 9:14 PM, 2017
In misty conditions this afternoon...
3rd winter yellow-legged gull, but flew off shortly after & headed towards western end then lost to view. 2nd winter iceland gull, found by phil Rhodes. Adult Mediterranean gull 2 kingfishers 9 goosanders 4 pochard 3 little grebe Plenty of coots & tufted ducks Several goldeneye
JOHN TYMON said
Fri Dec 15 5:36 PM, 2017
This afternoon
Goosander -16
Cormorant - 47
Iceland Gull - 1 x 2nd Winter
Mediterranean Gull - 1 Adult
Yellow Legged Gull - The regular 3rd Winter
Jackdaw- 500+ went to roost
:)
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Dec 14 5:15 PM, 2017
Second winter Iceland Gull roosted late afternoon today
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
JOHN TYMON said
Thu Dec 14 4:10 PM, 2017
2nd w and 3rd w yellow legged gull at the flash this afternoon
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Dec 13 6:04 PM, 2017
The usual second winter Iceland Gull and third winter Yellow-legged Gull in the roost tonight.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Dec 13 12:21 PM, 2017
Adult Mediterranean Gull present around midday.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Dec 13 10:10 AM, 2017
Three Little Egrets flying towards Teal Hide at 9am this morning.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Dec 12 10:51 AM, 2017
Late news for late yesterday afternoon between myself, Pete Berry and Phil Rhodes:
The usual 3rd winter Yellow-legged Gull and 2nd winter Iceland Gulls in the roost
33 Whooper Swans flew south at 4:30pm
colin davies said
Mon Dec 11 11:55 AM, 2017
I just had a quick look for the Caspian gull this morning, but no sign. There was an adult yellow-legged gull hanging around the spit.
Attached are a few photos of the Caspian gull from yesterday. I'm not sure that they add anything to John's photos, apart from the general feel of a snow storm at the flash!
Yellow Legged Gull - 3 = 2 x 3rd winter ,1 the regular ,the other the advanced bird from 2 weeks ago. 1 Adult which looked like the bird that was at the flash regularly until 2 weeks ago returning.
Kingfisher-2
Water Rail- 3
Goosander - 22
Goldeneye- 21
Cormorant-57
Pictures - 2nd w Iceland Gull
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Saturday 9th of December 2017 09:13:35 PM
This morning's sightings included the second winter Iceland Gull sat on the spit, 3 Pintail in the middle of the flash (2 drakes), 7 Wigeon, an adult Mediterranean Gull and most intriguing of all a probable Black-throated Diver flying around briefly early am which never appeared to land and could not be refound despite extensive searching.
Not a lot to report from a circuit of the flash this morning, highlights being:
Redwing 102 western end
Goosander 22
Goldeneye 10
Pochard 1 male western end
Wigeon 1 (info Bill Harrison)
-- Edited by colin davies on Thursday 30th of November 2017 11:33:38 AM
colin davies said
Tue Nov 28 5:12 PM, 2017
A very quiet gull roost tonight, probably less than half the number of gulls that were present last week and a repeat of Sunday evening. The only bird of note which I saw was the regular 3rd winter yellow-legged gull. Also today, 5 wigeon.
colin davies said
Sun Nov 26 9:26 PM, 2017
The regular 3rd winter yellow-legged gull showed well from Horrock's hide today. A very poor roost followed, the only highlight being the advanced 3rd winter yellow-legged gull which we found on Friday. Thanks to John Tymon for giving me the tip off that the gull was outside Horrock's.
pm and Roost with Phil Rhodes
Caspian Gull - 1 x 2nd Winter
Iceland Gull- 1 x 2nd Winter
Yellow Legged Gull - 1 x 3rd Winter
Goosander- 18
Cormorant - 49
Tufted Duck -70
Pochard-7
Redwing-6
Teal 42
plus the usual's
Pictures Record shots of Iceland Gull and Caspian Gull
The usual second winter Iceland Gull roosted night along with an adult Mediterranean Gull.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Two Iceland Gulls roosted this afternoon, the usual second winter and an adult.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
97 Great Black-Backed Gull and a leucistic Black-Headed Gull also present
c1200 Jackdaw roosted
-- Edited by dave broome on Thursday 4th of January 2018 08:02:12 PM
Of note pm
Yellow Legged Gull - 1 Adult ,same bird as the other week for me
Goosander-21
Water Rail - 2 showing well from Bunting Hide
Pochard - 1 Male
plus the usuals :)
Highlights from today:
Peregrine
Little Egret
20 Goosander
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Second winter Yellow legged Gull seen today at 3pm.
David Ousey
2 Little Egret
19 Goosander
33 Teal
36 Tufted Duck
7 Gadwall
27 Shoveler
11 Great Crested Grebe
6 Goldeneye
c25 Lapwing
1 Water Rail
1 Kingfisher
2 Snipe
c100 Redwing (Golf Course)
5 Siskin
Two Little Egret currently from Teal Hide at the minute.
Yellow Legged Gull - 1 3rd winter down to 10 feet today regularly under car park .
Little Egret-2 (1 on teal ,1 on westleigh brook)
Teal-45
Shelduck-1...
Goosander - 22
Cormorant-28
Snipe-2
Tufted Duck - 45 (massively down on the norm)
Great Crested Grebe-21 (again well down)
Goldeneye-12 ( low number)
Bullfinch-6
Kingfisher-2
plus the usuals.
picture 3rd w yellow legged gull
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 31st of December 2017 07:51:43 AM
Only things of note this afternoon in pretty horrendous conditions
Adult Yellow Legged Gull in east bay late afternoon ,same bird as Wednesday
Snipe 2
In roost tonight seen with Colin Davies
Iceland Gull - 1 x 2nd Winter that again came in after dark at about 4.00pm
1 Adult Mediterranean gull
46 Great Black Backed Gulls
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Thursday 28th of December 2017 09:00:55 PM
21 Goosander
13 Great Crested Grebe
2 Pochard
32 Shoveler
18 Tufted Duck
1 Willow Tit
2 Kingfisher
1 Little Egret
17 Redwing
6 Redpoll
1 Kestrel
Couldn't find anything special in the Gull Roost although I did only have Bins.
Excellent if very cold afternoon at the flash of note
Yellow Legged Gull - 2 = 1 x 3rd Winter (Regular bird) and a pristine new Adult that arrived at the same time as the regular bird and at times the regular bird was interacting and displaying to the Adult bird ,both arrived at 2.30 and the Adult flew high circling about 3.30 and was lost after that - record shot of the new Adult bird below.
Iceland Gull - 1 x 2nd Winter that again came in after dark at about 4.20 (found by Phil Rhodes)
Kestrel- 2
Sparrowhawk-1
Cormorant -32
Goosander-21
Wildfowl numbers seem very low,ive never seen so few Tufted Duck at this time of year ,probably no more than 50. where we would not long ago have 500 at this time of year.
Pictures new Adult Yellow Legged Gull
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Wednesday 27th of December 2017 07:54:27 PM
The regular third winter Yellow-legged Gull roosted again this afternoon.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
3rd winter yellow-legged gull again on the buoys next to the spit or near the gap in the east bay. It's looking a really smart bird now, and is still easy to pick out despite many of the argentatus herring gulls acquiring their white heads. In the photo it's the bird on the water. Also around 20 goosanders, 12 goldeneye and 30 lapwings.
AM/PM TO 2PM
Yellow Legged Gull - 2 ( regular 3rd Winter and the 2nd winter that occasionally appears about once a fortnight- record pictures below)
1 Adult Mediterranean gull off spit
Kingfisher-1
Little Egret-2
Goosander -18
plus the usuals
pictures 2nd Winter Yellow Legged Gull
The usual third winter Yellow-legged Gull was present in the roost from mid-afternoon at least today.
Highlights included;
Grey wagtail, treecreeper, nuthatch very briefly, redwing, mistle and song thrush, goldeneye, goosander, plus the usual stock dove, willow tit and reed bunting. (Just to note- I was stunned also to see 23 squirrels in one area together)
Also worthy to note was a good variety of gull variations (which was a good learning curve), a great black backed gull, one wigeon, gadwall, teal, shoveler and a 2 minute window of bright blue sky, at least it reminded me what colour the sky is supposed to be!
Pm of note
2 Adult Mediterranean gull
Highlights so far this morning:
Little Egret
22 Snipe
11 Pink-footed Geese over east
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
An adult Mediterranean Gull roosted yesterday evening.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
22.12.2017 pm
The flash was pretty quiet today and the smallest Gull roost I can remember recently ,and they all decided to go right under the boat clubs in the fog,so all I managed to pick out was a Adult Yellow Legged Gull ,and other things of note were 25 Goosander and 10 Goldeneye and about 200 Lapwing,a Kingfisher and that was about it really :)
This Afternoon with Colin Davies
Goosander-26
Oystercatcher-2
Yellow Legged Gull - 4 ( 2 Adult,1 x 3rd Winter,1 x 2nd Winter)
Iceland Gull - 1 2nd Winter
Little Egret -1
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 22nd of December 2017 06:58:22 AM
Two Oystercatcher present this morning.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
In the roost tonight,
1 Iceland gull 2nd winter
1 Yellow-legged gull 3rd winter
3rd winter yellow-legged gull
A single whooper Swan flew over the car park at 3.20pm heading north west.
15+ goosander
Pennington Flash -16.12.2017 - Another special day at the flash one of those where much of the place was frozen and also mist ,foggy ,cold ,not many people and full of birds .It started off with some good wildfowl numbers,with 98 Teal on the ice in ramsdales,26 Goosander,25 Shoveler,7 Dabchick,24 Great Crested Grebe,2 Male Pochard and 45 Cormorants including a nice sinensis race bird.The 3rd winter Yellow Legged Gull was present as usual, then a Male Merlin flashed through ,putting up all the teal as it headed North.
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 17th of December 2017 08:54:08 AM
3rd winter yellow-legged gull, but flew off shortly after & headed towards western end then lost to view.
2nd winter iceland gull, found by phil Rhodes.
Adult Mediterranean gull
2 kingfishers
9 goosanders
4 pochard
3 little grebe
Plenty of coots & tufted ducks
Several goldeneye
This afternoon
Goosander -16
Cormorant - 47
Iceland Gull - 1 x 2nd Winter
Mediterranean Gull - 1 Adult
Yellow Legged Gull - The regular 3rd Winter
Jackdaw- 500+ went to roost
:)
Second winter Iceland Gull roosted late afternoon today
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
The usual second winter Iceland Gull and third winter Yellow-legged Gull in the roost tonight.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Adult Mediterranean Gull present around midday.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Three Little Egrets flying towards Teal Hide at 9am this morning.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Late news for late yesterday afternoon between myself, Pete Berry and Phil Rhodes:
The usual 3rd winter Yellow-legged Gull and 2nd winter Iceland Gulls in the roost
33 Whooper Swans flew south at 4:30pm
I just had a quick look for the Caspian gull this morning, but no sign. There was an adult yellow-legged gull hanging around the spit.
Attached are a few photos of the Caspian gull from yesterday. I'm not sure that they add anything to John's photos, apart from the general feel of a snow storm at the flash!
Gull fest today in the heavy snow at Pennington Flash
Yellow Legged Gull - 1 x 2nd W and the usual 3rd W
Caspian Gull - 1 x 2nd Winter was on the spit from 2 pm then went to roost ,not the Audy bird as this one has a long yellow ring on the left leg.
Iceland Gull - 1 x 2nd W
also present
Kingfisher - 2
Goosander-25
Teal-30
Pictured distant digiscoped record shots in heavy snow
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Monday 11th of December 2017 07:38:59 AM
am/pm in pretty horrendous condition at times
Iceland Gull - 1 2nd Winter (in Roost)
Yellow Legged Gull - 3 = 2 x 3rd winter ,1 the regular ,the other the advanced bird from 2 weeks ago. 1 Adult which looked like the bird that was at the flash regularly until 2 weeks ago returning.
Kingfisher-2
Water Rail- 3
Goosander - 22
Goldeneye- 21
Cormorant-57
Pictures - 2nd w Iceland Gull
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Saturday 9th of December 2017 09:13:35 PM
Of note this afternoon
adult Mediterranean Gull
3rd Winter Yellow Legged Gull
This morning's sightings included the second winter Iceland Gull sat on the spit, 3 Pintail in the middle of the flash (2 drakes), 7 Wigeon, an adult Mediterranean Gull and most intriguing of all a probable Black-throated Diver flying around briefly early am which never appeared to land and could not be refound despite extensive searching.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Only other thing of note Pm in the rain
Little Egret-1
Goosander-21
Kingfisher-1
So far this morning:
Drake Common Scoter
The usual third winter Yellow-legged Gull
6 Wigeon
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Only things of note today in the roost was
Yellow Legged Gull - 1 3rd Winter ,the usual resident
Iceland Gull - 1x 2nd Winter distant shot half an hour after dusk attached
In the roost tonight:
Iceland gull 2nd winter, the first time it's put in an appearance here for 10 days to my knowledge.
Yellow-legged gull 1 3rd winter, not the regular bird and at least the third 3rd winter I have seen this winter so far (if you see what I mean!).
Photo of the Iceland gull taken at 16:20, I'm amazed that I got anything.
Not a lot to report from a circuit of the flash this morning, highlights being:
Redwing 102 western end
Goosander 22
Goldeneye 10
Pochard 1 male western end
Wigeon 1 (info Bill Harrison)
-- Edited by colin davies on Thursday 30th of November 2017 11:33:38 AM
A very quiet gull roost tonight, probably less than half the number of gulls that were present last week and a repeat of Sunday evening. The only bird of note which I saw was the regular 3rd winter yellow-legged gull. Also today, 5 wigeon.
The regular 3rd winter yellow-legged gull showed well from Horrock's hide today. A very poor roost followed, the only highlight being the advanced 3rd winter yellow-legged gull which we found on Friday. Thanks to John Tymon for giving me the tip off that the gull was outside Horrock's.