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Tuesday 8 February 2011
Larus melanocephalus
A winter adult at Hendre lake this morning. My first at this site, de-gripping the county recorder who saw one last year.
There've been surprisingly few this winter so pretty good to get one there Maurice. The only 'unusual' gull I ever saw there in many lunchtime visits when I was still working, was a Little Gull on 30th Mar '95, which came in with 2 B-h Gulls, fed for 25 mins, then left. Just checked - it's on the database! ... thanks to our diligent recorder - documented rec from the '95 EGBR!
Didn't see that. Was a bit out of touch in 1995 - too much work and not enough birding. Must be a possibility of it turning up again. There is a bit more coverage now though a lot more disturbance - Dog city in fact !
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There've been surprisingly few this winter so pretty good to get one there Maurice. The only 'unusual' gull I ever saw there in many lunchtime visits when I was still working, was a Little Gull on 30th Mar '95, which came in with 2 B-h Gulls, fed for 25 mins, then left. Just checked - it's on the database! ... thanks to our diligent recorder - documented rec from the '95 EGBR!
Didn't see that. Was a bit out of touch in 1995 - too much work and not enough birding. Must be a possibility of it turning up again. There is a bit more coverage now though a lot more disturbance - Dog city in fact !
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