I'll start with this morning, and Black Hole Marsh was lovely. Mostly because this juv Wood Sandpiper was still present...
It spent most of the time miles away - thankfully though it did eventually come close!
Also an obvious increase in Blackwits, with 27 all looking superb. Otherwise waders were represented by; two Greenshank, four Green Sands, eight Common Sands and six Dunlin. Non-wader highlights included my first Yellow Wagtail of the autumn, feeding with Pied Wags on the marsh (quite vocal it was too!) and two Gadwall still.
When I got back home this morning, I was greeted by this on the front of the house...
My first Jersey Tiger of 2012
Yesterday, all I had time for was a quick look along the Estuary mid afternoon. Nothing of note, although this gave me a bit of a fright...
Yes the one on the wood - looking a bit Caspian-ish...
For a time I thought I could have a first-summer Caspian Gull, but it wasn't. In fact when it landed in the water in turned in to a very bog standard-looking Herring Gull!
The previous day, a look along the Estuary revealed my first juv's of Great Black-backed and Yellow-legged Gulls of 2012. I was a bit hesitant of the YLG first because it had some notches around the tips of the otherwise black tertials, but everything else, especially size and structure (it was a hefty thing!), spot on...
Gav had possibly another two later on
I had a colour-ringed Black-headed Gull on Black Hole Marsh on 20th July, and have just received the details for it. It is always interesting to read a long list of re-sightings on colour-ringed birds, but it was equally interesting to read that Black-headed Gull white TNAR was ringed only a month before I saw it! On 19th June 2012 it was ringed as a second calender year male on Przykona Reservoir, Turek, Poland. And it was next seen by me on Black Hole Marsh!
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