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The regular third winter Yellow-legged Gull roosted again this afternoon.

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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.



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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

 



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The usual third winter Yellow-legged Gull was present in the roost from mid-afternoon at least today.



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43 species in dull and murky conditions.

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!

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Pm of note

2 Adult Mediterranean gull



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Highlights so far this morning:

Little Egret

22 Snipe

11 Pink-footed Geese over east 

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An adult Mediterranean Gull roosted yesterday evening.

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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 :)



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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



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Two Oystercatcher present this morning.

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In the roost tonight,

1 Iceland gull 2nd winter

1 Yellow-legged gull 3rd winter



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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



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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.



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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


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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

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Second winter Iceland Gull roosted late afternoon today

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2nd w and 3rd w yellow legged gull at the flash this afternoon

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The usual second winter Iceland Gull and third winter Yellow-legged Gull in the roost tonight.

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Adult Mediterranean Gull present around midday.

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Three Little Egrets flying towards Teal Hide at 9am this morning.

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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

 



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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!



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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





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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

 

 



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Of note this afternoon

adult Mediterranean Gull

3rd Winter Yellow Legged Gull



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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.

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Only other thing of note Pm in the rain

Little Egret-1

Goosander-21

Kingfisher-1



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So far this morning:

Drake Common Scoter

The usual third winter Yellow-legged Gull

6 Wigeon

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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

 



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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.



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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)



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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.



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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.



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Thanks Mike, was a little worried something was not right with it

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Looks like you caught the eyes mid-nictate.

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Here's a shot of a first winter Goldeneye male taken yesterday. It wasn't looking that good and it wasn't until I got home and noticed its eyes. Can anyone tell me what this could be? Many thanks

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A 30 minute look at the gull roost from Green Lane this evening in bitter, wet, dull and windy conditions revealed 2 yellow-legged gulls, the long staying adult and a 3rd winter which was new in yesterday evening. Photo is of the new 3rd winter yellow-legged gull (taken yesterday). 



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Single adult Mediterranean Gull off the spit from Horrocks Hide this morning

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Adult Mediterranean Gull off the car park taken today at around 11.00am. Took some shots and someone was asking if it was ringed. In one of the shots it is ringed but not sure what info you can get from this. Please take a look. Many thanks.



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Adult Mediterranean gull off car park this morning also 4 wigeon.



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Late news for yesterday morning when a single Redshank was present.

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Adult and third winter yellow-legged gulls in the roost this evening. Also 11 wigeon in the centre of the flash for most of the day.

I see a few oddities amongst the gulls when doing the roost, and here's another. Presumably a lesser black-back, but much smaller than usual with a  deformity above the bill giving it the look of a fulmar!



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The regular 3rd winter yellow-legged gull was in the roost this evening, but I had to abandon half an hour before sunset due to the weather and many birds probably hadn't even come in at that point.

 



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Two yellow-legged gulls in the roost this evening, the usual adult and 3rd winter. No sign of the Iceland gull or any Mediterranean gulls. However the weather was pretty awful and we viewed the roost from Horrock's hide rather than Green Lane so anything at the western end was pretty much out of view.

 



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Fascinating! Thanks Dave, I have a copy of your book. There were a lot of dunlin around at the time, I think there were about 70 at Audenshaw on the same day.

Not a lot happening at the flash today so far today, about 10 goldeneye, 10 goosander, 60 redwing (mainly western end) and a Cetti's warbler singing still in Ramsdales. If the rain keeps off I'll be back for the roost later.



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Colin - Regarding your 9th November details about small packs of Dunlin at the flash, there seems to be a clear link between what you witnessed and earlier events. In 'Birds and Birdwatching at Pennington Flash', I described an early November (1984) spectacle as follows:- "Ringing studies have shown that birds of the Northern Scandinavian and North-West Russian race - C.a.alpina - arrive on The Wash in late summer, and after moulting many move to the estuaries of the North-West. Many birds must cross our area in October and November, but this late migration is largely unseen and perhaps of a nocturnal character. Westbound individuals, and rarely small flocks, are seen at Pennington almost annually in November, but the concentrated movement of 1984 has no precedent. During a week-end of continuous rain and a moderate north-westerly wind, several hundreds crossed the flash. In less than four hours on the 4th, the rate was 88 per hour: 303 were counted in 33 flocks, with seven single birds. Next day the rate was seven per hour." I had heard Dunlin calls at night on the 3rd and consider that this event might well have involved more than several hundred birds - all silent, all skimming the water and following an identical course, and rising when thy reached the western end. As far as I'm aware, I was the only saturated witness to this magical happening at Pennington, though others recorded the westerly movement at Audenshaw (some staying there for a while) and the Wigan flashes!

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This evening in the gull roost:

Iceland gull 1 2nd win. Presumably the same bird which was at Atherton today and at the flash two weeks ago.

Yellow-legged gull 2 (adult & 3rd winter)

Mediterranean gull 1 adult

Black-headed gull many 1000s including a leucistic bird (or is it albino, it seems to have a much redder bill than the nearby normal black-heads)

Once again apologies for the quality of the photos, they were taken on my phone in near dark at sunset. I took almost 700 photos of the roost today and these are the best!

 



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Third winter Yellow-legged Gull present this morning, also the Little Egret still present and 10 Snipe.

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