Adult Iceland gull and adult Mediterranean gull in the roost this evening, but no sign of juvenile Iceland or juvenile glaucous gulls. This is probably the Iceland gull that has been in Haydock and Newton-le-Willows today, so there is a good chance that the juvenile glaucous could return as well, since it has spent the day with the adult Iceland.
Info thanks to Neil Gordon.
-- Edited by colin davies on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 08:47:20 PM
colin davies said
Wed Feb 15 7:49 AM, 2017
Just a quick note which may be of interest, what looks like the same glaucous gull that was at the flash a week or two ago was on Lyme and Woods Pit tip in Haydock yesterday. It's probably been roosting at Prescot reservoirs, but at least we know it's still in the area and a return to Pennington may be on the cards soon.
colin davies said
Tue Feb 14 10:01 PM, 2017
In the gull roost this evening, the juvenile Iceland gull again and 2 adult Mediterrranean gulls, one with a complete black hood, the other with a 75% hood.
The adult and Iceland gull and juvenile glaucous gull are still in the area as close as Haydock, so could come in again any day.
-- Edited by colin davies on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 07:04:42 PM
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Feb 14 12:31 PM, 2017
This morning's highlights:
1 Ringed Plover on the sailing club shore Adult Mediterranean Gull Long-tailed Duck 8 Snipe 4 Oystercatcher
Long Tailed Duck - 1 x 1st winter Male Scaup- 5 Little Egret - 1 Mediterranean gull - 1 stunning adult under car park with the Black headed Gulls Redpoll- 60 (largest number this winter) Nuthatch-1 Goosander-42 Goldeneye-46 Common Snipe -8 Pochard-2 Oystercatcher-4 plus all the usual good winter birds
This Herring Gull was also present again today
from the ringing recovery Its a bird which was colour-ringed ringed at Harewood Whin landfill site, to the west of York, (53.960 -1.177). The bird was caught using a Cannon Net and is one of around 1500 Gulls which have been caught and colour ringed to date.Harewood Whin is one of the decreasing number of Landfill sites in the UK where it is possible to operate for the catching and ringing of gulls. Whilst with us the gulls feed on the Landfill site during the day and roost on the floods in Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve or on the Humber Estuary.
The bird was rung on 26th February 2016 and was previously seen at Preston Marina on 8th May 2016
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 12th of February 2017 06:33:14 PM
Spent most the afternoon around the southern and western sides of the flash. Highlights female Brambling in with Chaffinches in horse paddocks behind sorrowcow pond, 2Yellowhammer flew from fields between flash and Slag lane over Slag lane and into trees near stables. Single Woodcock flushed from near path by a dog, Little egret in wet horse fields at western end and adult Mediterranean Gull in with Black headed Gulls on main flash c. 4.30.
David Kaye said
Sat Feb 11 6:11 PM, 2017
JOHN TYMON wrote:
Long tailed duck- 1 x 1st winter male -now starting to get its long tail ,its about 4" at the moment and its sticking it up like a ruddy duck would. I am not too sure how good they look in 1st summer ,as theres little in the books about ageing and plumage of these fabulous ducks.
There are a couple of blogs (with excellent pictures) about plumage changes in long-tailed ducks
Long tailed duck- 1 x 1st winter male -now starting to get its long tail ,its about 4" at the moment and its sticking it up like a ruddy duck would. I am not too sure how good they look in 1st summer ,as theres little in the books about ageing and plumage of these fabulous ducks. Scaup- 5 (at least 2 look like 1st winter Males) Goosander-48 Common Snipe- 14... Goldeneye-47 Tufted Duck- 145 Little Egret-2 Lapwing-45 Cormorant-38 Lttle Grebe-4 Bullfinch-7 plus the usuals :) Picture Lapwing -Pennington Flash
Long tailed Duck - 1st winter male still present at Dusk
Scaup-5 still present at Dusk
Little Egret-1
Redwing -150 (south bank fields)
Oystercatcher -3
Buzzard -2
Scott robinson said
Fri Feb 10 3:37 PM, 2017
Day off today so had a good mooch this lunchtime,
All Scaup and Long-tailed Duck still present as of 13:30 No Little Egret for me but counted decent numbers of Goosander and Snipe, I can add an extra Buzzard to Bills sightings. 16 Redpoll around the Southern end. 2 Willow Tit, 1 Aspull Common Path, the other Bunting Hide. 4 Goldcrest 9 Bullfinch 9 Siskin some Southern end some near Teal Hide. 1 Kingfisher showing well near Sailing club. At least 30 Lapwing went over heading North-West.
Plus all usuals about.
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Feb 10 11:25 AM, 2017
This morning's highlights:
Long-tailed Duck and 5 Scaup still present 1 Little Egret 1 Dunlin on the spit 3 Oystercatcher 1 Buzzard
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Feb 9 10:54 AM, 2017
Highlights so far from this morning include:
3 Oystercatcher 5 Scaup 44 Goosander First winter drake Long-tailed Duck looking more dapper with each week 6 Snipe
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Feb 8 6:55 PM, 2017
Juvenile Iceland Gull in the roost again this evening, along with three Mediterranean Gulls (two adults and a second winter).
Some late news from yesterday, a 2nd winter yellow-legged gull was in the roost. Sorry for the delay reporting it, I wanted to be as certain as possible.
-- Edited by colin davies on Wednesday 8th of February 2017 09:45:01 PM
Juvenile Iceland and an adult Mediterranean Gull roosted 5 Scaup and the Long-tailed Duck still present
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Rob Creek said
Mon Feb 6 8:48 PM, 2017
John / Pete ...I had a 1st winter Herring Gull at Redgate Recycling in Gorton (see Odds Sods Bits n Bobs) in November with ring no. Y-808. I too got the same reply from Mike Jackson and Pete Rock that the Gull was part of the Harewood Whin Landfill ringing project. My Gull was rung in York literally a few days before it appeared in Manchester.
pete berry said
Mon Feb 6 7:41 PM, 2017
JOHN TYMON wrote:
Theres an 3rd winter Herring Gull frequenting the front of Horrocks hide with a yellow ring left leg which reads Y-193 I managed to read with my Scope yesterday . I got this back today about how and when it was ringed if anyone is interested? ....
Thank you for reporting your sighting of a colour ringed bird.
Its a bird which was colour-ringed ringed at Harewood Whin landfill site, to the west of York, (53.960 -1.177). The bird was caught using a Cannon Net and is one of around 1500 Gulls which have been caught and colour ringed to date.
Harewood Whin is one of the decreasing number of Landfill sites in the UK where it is possible to operate for the catching and ringing of gulls. Whilst with us the gulls feed on the Landfill site during the day and roost on the floods in Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve or on the Humber Estuary.
The bird was rung on 26th February 2016 and was previously seen at Preston Marina on 8th May 2016
I hope you find this of interest and many thanks for taking the time to report your sighting.
Best Regards
Mike
We've had several of these birds at Heaton Park Res including 2 that we have previously seen at Richmond Bank in early autumn.We had quite a few of them there before the landfill shut at Xmas.
JOHN TYMON said
Mon Feb 6 6:35 PM, 2017
Theres an 3rd winter Herring Gull frequenting the front of Horrocks hide with a yellow ring left leg which reads Y-193 I managed to read with my Scope yesterday . I got this back today about how and when it was ringed if anyone is interested? ....
Thank you for reporting your sighting of a colour ringed bird.
Its a bird which was colour-ringed ringed at Harewood Whin landfill site, to the west of York, (53.960 -1.177). The bird was caught using a Cannon Net and is one of around 1500 Gulls which have been caught and colour ringed to date.
Harewood Whin is one of the decreasing number of Landfill sites in the UK where it is possible to operate for the catching and ringing of gulls. Whilst with us the gulls feed on the Landfill site during the day and roost on the floods in Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve or on the Humber Estuary.
The bird was rung on 26th February 2016 and was previously seen at Preston Marina on 8th May 2016
I hope you find this of interest and many thanks for taking the time to report your sighting.
Best Regards
Mike
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Feb 6 12:48 PM, 2017
Birds from this morning included:
1 Oystercatcher 2 Little Egret 24 Goosander 4 Skylark
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Jonny Scragg said
Mon Feb 6 12:25 PM, 2017
Bunting Hide 1 Willow Tit 8 Bullfinch 18 Stock Dove Water Rail 7 Long-tailed Tit 1 Coal Tit 1 Nuthatch
Horrock's Hide 1 Long-tailed Duck out in the middle at 11am
Shannon Llewellyn said
Sun Feb 5 9:03 PM, 2017
Somewhat muddy day spent around here today; highlights:
1 Cetti's warbler heard singing 3 willow tit Goldcrest, bullfinch, reed bunting, redwing, jay, etc. 2 great spotted woodpecker 1 water rail heard 80+ teal 22+ gadwall 36+ shoveler 2 shelduck 100+ tufted duck 2 pochard (male and female) 5 scaup (seen from the leaning post by Ramsdale's reedbed) 20+ goldeneye 1 long-tailed duck (very obliging; viewed from area outside Horrock's Hide, and another first for me) 32+ goosander 157 pink-footed geese over N, in two skeins of 34 & 123. 15+ great crested grebe 3 little grebe c100 lapwing 1 oystercatcher 9 grey heron 30+ cormorant Didn't have the time or the optics to properly appreciate the gull roost, unfortunately, which was beginning to build as I left; no less usual species came close enough in for me to ID, if they were about, but black-headed, common, lesser black-backed and herring gulls about in decent numbers all day.
Ian McKerchar said
Sun Feb 5 6:23 PM, 2017
A Curlew flew west at 1pm today and 120 Pink-Footed Geese flew north at 12:40.
In the roost, juvenile Iceland and 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls roosted.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Scott robinson said
Sun Feb 5 9:42 AM, 2017
JOHN TYMON wrote:
1long tailed duck, 5 scaup ,3 shelduck so far this morning
Was out running this morning so I can add 20+ Redwing around the Southern End, as was a few Redpoll and Siskin in Alders. 1 Kingfisher on the Lagoon and a single Kestrel on Rammies Ruck.
colin davies said
Sun Feb 5 9:42 AM, 2017
A bit of late news for yesterday, there was an oystercather on the spit and later flying around late afternoon. Attached is my best photo of last nights yellow-legged gull. Also a (herring?) gull with a deformed bill, christened the "curlew" gull
Scaup- 5 picture below Long Tailed Duck- 1... Oystercatcher-1( first this year for me at the flash) Goldeneye-42 Cormorant-34 Mediterranean gull -1 Adult Iceland Gull- 1 Juvenile//1st W( A real big Male by the look of it and most likely different bird than the preious one)pic below Black Headed Gull- 1 Leucistic bird a real beauty Yellow legged Gull - most likely an Adult was picked up late in the roost,but to dark to be 100% certain. plus the usuals :)
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 3rd of February 2017 07:42:53 PM
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 3rd of February 2017 07:43:21 PM
34 Goosander 3 Little Egret Cetti's Warbler singing briefly near the canal
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
JOHN TYMON said
Fri Feb 3 1:38 PM, 2017
Oystercatcher also on spit this morning
colin davies said
Fri Feb 3 1:09 PM, 2017
Thanks Ian. This morning there were 5 scaup in the south-east corner, looks like 4 females and a young male to me. Long-tailed duck still out in the middle as well.
Been 4 Scaup since at least the 30th January Colin, see further down this thread.
colin davies said
Thu Feb 2 6:56 PM, 2017
Juvenile Iceland gull and adult Mediterranean gull in the roost tonight from Green Lane. Also the long-tailed duck was out in the midddle, and I was told that there were now 4 scaup near Horrock's hide, though I didn't see them myself. No sign of the glaucous gull tonight.
-- Edited by colin davies on Thursday 2nd of February 2017 07:00:46 PM
Steve Collins said
Tue Jan 31 2:56 PM, 2017
This morning highlights for me
3 Scaup, Long-tailed Duck & 2 Pochard all from car park.
1Little Egret in tree to right of path near screen beyond Teal Hide.
24 Snipe.
Not been for a while but really enjoyed the morning.
Rob Creek said
Tue Jan 31 11:38 AM, 2017
Apologies for late post - iPhone software trouble after the latest update!
Saturday 28th Jan, late afternoon visit, good to see Jonathan Platt and co. and then Phil Kelly.
Of note... - 3 Scaup close up just off the car park - 1 Long-tailed Duck - 1 adult Mediterranean Gull in roost - 1 drake Pochard - 10+ Goosander - plenty of Goldeneye
2 other Gulls of note (and I was told they had been noted by Flash regulars too)... 1 that looked good at first for adult Yellow-legged Gull on the end of the spit, mantle hue and the legs looked ok but eventually I decided something just didn't fit, can't put my finger on it. Possible Hybrid? Also a juvenile that I thought looked very similar to Yellow-legged Gull but I was told it had been noted and it isn't one, but on a positive note that I will take from that is the fact I'd picked up on the same 2 individuals that more experienced birders had picked up on too, so I'm happy with that.
The juvenile glaucous gull was still in the overnight roost at 7.35am I watched it bathing for almost 10 minutes before it eventually dissapeared at 7.45am. Mediterranean gull was also still in roost, no signs of the iceland gull. Long-tailed duck still present.
colin davies said
Mon Jan 30 7:26 PM, 2017
I managed to get to Green Lane at Pennington Flash for just after 4pm today and so got the last hour of the gull roost. I'm glad I made the effort because I picked out two white wingers, first of all the juvenile glaucous gull dropped in at about 4:20pm and then at 5pm a juvenile Iceland gull appeared. The glaucous gull is definately the same bird that roosted last week in my opinion. Not sure about the Iceland, it's a week or two now since the last was reported so it may be a new bird. There were many more large gulls today than there were last week, with 1000+ from Green Lane and others in the distance. The glaucous gull hasn't been reported since last Friday morning, perhaps it's simply not a weekend bird if it's feeding on a tip which is only open during the week.
4 Scaup, (m,f,2 juv ? in various stages of moult) asleep; from canal bank
Also, 1 Lesser Redpoll "eyeball-to-eyeball", Water Rail (h), 20 Goosander - same location
Long-Tailed Duck from Horrocks, definitely no large white-winged gulls, couldn't find the Mediterranean Gull
Andy Isherwood said
Sun Jan 29 10:59 AM, 2017
Brief look on a mainly frozen main flash this am, the 3 Scaup showing well near the sailing club, single shelduck over heading towards lightshaw area and good numbers of Redwings in trees and hedgerows around western side of flash.
JOHN TYMON said
Sat Jan 28 7:24 PM, 2017
Pennington Flash -28.01.2016 9.30-17.20
It must be a form of Madness to be out all day in this weather. Another full day in freezing cold wind and rain at the flash,with a break in between for an hour and half to get warm at the LOS Open day were I met up with friends old and new,in what seemed like another excellent well organised event, anyway what did I see at the Flash...
Long Tailed Duck - 1 x 1st W Male
Scaup- 3 =2 Female ,1 Male .
Cormorant-38 Including 1 which looked like sinensis
Common Snipe- 18
Pochard-2
Little Egret-1
Pink Footed Geese- 130 > NW
Goldeneye- 61(Highest number for a while)
Goosander-32
Jackdaw-c700 going to Roost
Mediterranean gull - 1 Adult in Roost
Gull Roost was the Smallest ive seen for a while ,with very few Large Gulls.
steven burke said
Fri Jan 27 11:13 PM, 2017
3-5.10pm
no sign of the glaucous gull in this evenings roost. adult Mediterranean gull long-tailed duck 3 scaup 1 little egret 15 goosander
Adult Iceland gull and adult Mediterranean gull in the roost this evening, but no sign of juvenile Iceland or juvenile glaucous gulls. This is probably the Iceland gull that has been in Haydock and Newton-le-Willows today, so there is a good chance that the juvenile glaucous could return as well, since it has spent the day with the adult Iceland.
Info thanks to Neil Gordon.
-- Edited by colin davies on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 08:47:20 PM
Just a quick note which may be of interest, what looks like the same glaucous gull that was at the flash a week or two ago was on Lyme and Woods Pit tip in Haydock yesterday. It's probably been roosting at Prescot reservoirs, but at least we know it's still in the area and a return to Pennington may be on the cards soon.
In the gull roost this evening, the juvenile Iceland gull again and 2 adult Mediterrranean gulls, one with a complete black hood, the other with a 75% hood.
The adult and Iceland gull and juvenile glaucous gull are still in the area as close as Haydock, so could come in again any day.
-- Edited by colin davies on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 07:04:42 PM
1 Ringed Plover on the sailing club shore
Adult Mediterranean Gull
Long-tailed Duck
8 Snipe
4 Oystercatcher
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
The adult Iceland Gull in roost this evening
This late afternoon with Pete Berry:
2 Iceland Gulls; adult and juvenile (phonescoped images below)
4 Mediterranean Gulls; 3 adults and a second winter
Here are a couple of pictures of the juv Iceland Gull from last Friday that I thought the group might like to
AM/PM
Long Tailed Duck - 1 x 1st winter Male
Scaup- 5
Little Egret - 1
Mediterranean gull - 1 stunning adult under car park with the Black headed Gulls
Redpoll- 60 (largest number this winter)
Nuthatch-1
Goosander-42
Goldeneye-46
Common Snipe -8
Pochard-2
Oystercatcher-4
plus all the usual good winter birds
This Herring Gull was also present again today
from the ringing recovery Its a bird which was colour-ringed ringed at Harewood Whin landfill site, to the west of York, (53.960 -1.177). The bird was caught using a Cannon Net and is one of around 1500 Gulls which have been caught and colour ringed to date. Harewood Whin is one of the decreasing number of Landfill sites in the UK where it is possible to operate for the catching and ringing of gulls. Whilst with us the gulls feed on the Landfill site during the day and roost on the floods in Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve or on the Humber Estuary.
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 12th of February 2017 06:33:14 PM
Long-tailed Duck following a group of Goosander around
5 Scaup
4 Oystercatcher
Kingfisher
Small number of Siskin behind Horrocks Hide
Juvenile Iceland Gull roosted again this evening.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
There are a couple of blogs (with excellent pictures) about plumage changes in long-tailed ducks
http://jerryjourdan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/evidence-of-pre-alternate-molt-in-long.html
http://jerryjourdan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/ageing-long-tailed-ducks-27-jan-2013.html
Long tailed duck- 1 x 1st winter male -now starting to get its long tail ,its about 4" at the moment and its sticking it up like a ruddy duck would. I am not too sure how good they look in 1st summer ,as theres little in the books about ageing and plumage of these fabulous ducks.
:)
Scaup- 5 (at least 2 look like 1st winter Males)
Goosander-48
Common Snipe- 14...
Goldeneye-47
Tufted Duck- 145
Little Egret-2
Lapwing-45
Cormorant-38
Lttle Grebe-4
Bullfinch-7
plus the usuals
Picture Lapwing -Pennington Flash
Adult Mediterranean Gull roosted
Long tailed Duck - 1st winter male still present at Dusk
Scaup-5 still present at Dusk
Little Egret-1
Redwing -150 (south bank fields)
Oystercatcher -3
Buzzard -2
All Scaup and Long-tailed Duck still present as of 13:30
No Little Egret for me but counted decent numbers of Goosander and Snipe, I can add an extra Buzzard to Bills sightings.
16 Redpoll around the Southern end.
2 Willow Tit, 1 Aspull Common Path, the other Bunting Hide.
4 Goldcrest
9 Bullfinch
9 Siskin some Southern end some near Teal Hide.
1 Kingfisher showing well near Sailing club.
At least 30 Lapwing went over heading North-West.
Plus all usuals about.
Long-tailed Duck and 5 Scaup still present
1 Little Egret
1 Dunlin on the spit
3 Oystercatcher
1 Buzzard
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
3 Oystercatcher
5 Scaup
44 Goosander
First winter drake Long-tailed Duck looking more dapper with each week
6 Snipe
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
5 Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
39 Goosander
1 Little Egret
3 Oystercatcher
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Some late news from yesterday, a 2nd winter yellow-legged gull was in the roost. Sorry for the delay reporting it, I wanted to be as certain as possible.
-- Edited by colin davies on Wednesday 8th of February 2017 09:45:01 PM
Juvenile Iceland gull and 2 adult Mediterranean gulls in the roost. Quite different birds, one has an almost complete hood, the other has a 50% hood.
2 Oystercatcher
2 Little Egret
2 Shelduck
Long-tailed Duck
42 Goosander
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Juvenile Iceland and an adult Mediterranean Gull roosted
5 Scaup and the Long-tailed Duck still present
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
...I had a 1st winter Herring Gull at Redgate Recycling in Gorton (see Odds Sods Bits n Bobs) in November with ring no. Y-808.
I too got the same reply from Mike Jackson and Pete Rock that the Gull was part of the Harewood Whin Landfill ringing project. My Gull was rung in York literally a few days before it appeared in Manchester.
We've had several of these birds at Heaton Park Res including 2 that we have previously seen at Richmond Bank in early autumn.We had quite a few of them there before the landfill shut at Xmas.
1 Oystercatcher
2 Little Egret
24 Goosander
4 Skylark
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
1 Willow Tit
8 Bullfinch
18 Stock Dove
Water Rail
7 Long-tailed Tit
1 Coal Tit
1 Nuthatch
Horrock's Hide
1 Long-tailed Duck out in the middle at 11am
1 Cetti's warbler heard singing
3 willow tit
Goldcrest, bullfinch, reed bunting, redwing, jay, etc.
2 great spotted woodpecker
1 water rail heard
80+ teal
22+ gadwall
36+ shoveler
2 shelduck
100+ tufted duck
2 pochard (male and female)
5 scaup (seen from the leaning post by Ramsdale's reedbed)
20+ goldeneye
1 long-tailed duck (very obliging; viewed from area outside Horrock's Hide, and another first for me)
32+ goosander
157 pink-footed geese over N, in two skeins of 34 & 123.
15+ great crested grebe
3 little grebe
c100 lapwing
1 oystercatcher
9 grey heron
30+ cormorant
Didn't have the time or the optics to properly appreciate the gull roost, unfortunately, which was beginning to build as I left; no less usual species came close enough in for me to ID, if they were about, but black-headed, common, lesser black-backed and herring gulls about in decent numbers all day.
In the roost, juvenile Iceland and 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls roosted.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Was out running this morning so I can add 20+ Redwing around the Southern End, as was a few Redpoll and Siskin in Alders. 1 Kingfisher on the Lagoon and a single Kestrel on Rammies Ruck.
A bit of late news for yesterday, there was an oystercather on the spit and later flying around late afternoon. Attached is my best photo of last nights yellow-legged gull. Also a (herring?) gull with a deformed bill, christened the "curlew" gull
Gull Roost tonight 4pm-5.40pm
Iceland Gull - 1 Juv/1st W- same big bird as last night
Mediterranean gull -1 Adult
Yellow Legged Gull - A crackin' 3rd Winter /4th Calender year bird came in late on
also Long tailed Duck was out in the middle of the flash
:)
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Saturday 4th of February 2017 09:05:54 PM
11.30- 17.30
Scaup- 5 picture below
:)
Long Tailed Duck- 1...
Oystercatcher-1( first this year for me at the flash)
Goldeneye-42
Cormorant-34
Mediterranean gull -1 Adult
Iceland Gull- 1 Juvenile//1st W( A real big Male by the look of it and most likely different bird than the preious one)pic below
Black Headed Gull- 1 Leucistic bird a real beauty
Yellow legged Gull - most likely an Adult was picked up late in the roost,but to dark to be 100% certain.
plus the usuals
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 3rd of February 2017 07:42:53 PM
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 3rd of February 2017 07:43:21 PM
34 Goosander
3 Little Egret
Cetti's Warbler singing briefly near the canal
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Thanks Ian. This morning there were 5 scaup in the south-east corner, looks like 4 females and a young male to me. Long-tailed duck still out in the middle as well.
Juvenile Iceland gull and adult Mediterranean gull in the roost tonight from Green Lane. Also the long-tailed duck was out in the midddle, and I was told that there were now 4 scaup near Horrock's hide, though I didn't see them myself. No sign of the glaucous gull tonight.
-- Edited by colin davies on Thursday 2nd of February 2017 07:00:46 PM
Saturday 28th Jan, late afternoon visit, good to see Jonathan Platt and co. and then Phil Kelly.
Of note...
- 3 Scaup close up just off the car park
- 1 Long-tailed Duck
- 1 adult Mediterranean Gull in roost
- 1 drake Pochard
- 10+ Goosander
- plenty of Goldeneye
2 other Gulls of note (and I was told they had been noted by Flash regulars too)...
1 that looked good at first for adult Yellow-legged Gull on the end of the spit, mantle hue and the legs looked ok but eventually I decided something just didn't fit, can't put my finger on it. Possible Hybrid?
Also a juvenile that I thought looked very similar to Yellow-legged Gull but I was told it had been noted and it isn't one, but on a positive note that I will take from that is the fact I'd picked up on the same 2 individuals that more experienced birders had picked up on too, so I'm happy with that.
Mediterranean gull was also still in roost, no signs of the iceland gull.
Long-tailed duck still present.
I managed to get to Green Lane at Pennington Flash for just after 4pm today and so got the last hour of the gull roost. I'm glad I made the effort because I picked out two white wingers, first of all the juvenile glaucous gull dropped in at about 4:20pm and then at 5pm a juvenile Iceland gull appeared. The glaucous gull is definately the same bird that roosted last week in my opinion. Not sure about the Iceland, it's a week or two now since the last was reported so it may be a new bird. There were many more large gulls today than there were last week, with 1000+ from Green Lane and others in the distance. The glaucous gull hasn't been reported since last Friday morning, perhaps it's simply not a weekend bird if it's feeding on a tip which is only open during the week.
3 Little Egret
27 Snipe
400 Lapwing
Long-tailed Duck
4 Scaup
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
4 Scaup, (m,f,2 juv ? in various stages of moult) asleep; from canal bank
Also, 1 Lesser Redpoll "eyeball-to-eyeball", Water Rail (h), 20 Goosander - same location
Long-Tailed Duck from Horrocks, definitely no large white-winged gulls, couldn't find the Mediterranean Gull
no sign of the glaucous gull in this evenings roost.
adult Mediterranean gull
long-tailed duck
3 scaup
1 little egret
15 goosander