Coffee and cake with Dave this afternoon at pond then a walk to outlet. Roost was building up early with large numbers of Common Gulls and Black-headed Gulls trying to get as much shelter from the wind and swell as possible from rainbow and draycote bank. Close scrutiny showed many variations amongst the Common Gulls, some with pure white heads and a few with so much streaking on head they almost looked hooded. Two adult winter Med Gulls were very close in giving great views and as the gull numbers increased we had three adult Yellow-legged Gulls and one adult Caspian Gull. While watching roost we were treated to fantastic prolonged views of the Great-northern Diver 150 yards off outlet on the surface for at least ten minutes before it went back out to the centre, two Ruddy Duck in rainbow, Kingfisher fishing off the rocks and 10 Goosander. Mike Doughty-Lee rang from valve tower to find out what we had seen and he reported he had seen the Little Egret off lin croft point. Dave could not stay long so we left before the bigger gulls arrived. Smew and Lesser Scaup still present today though we never saw them.
Spring Usher in trap last night.
Richard
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