I went over to Rutland Water
to look for the Great Northern Diver again and also hopefully to see a
first-winter Glaucous Gull that has come in on lagoon four during the last two
days.
I arrived at the dam and
despite six of us searching for the diver, as usual there was no sign but there
was a nice adult Yellow-legged Gull present.
On arrival at the Bird
Watching Centre the diver was in the book as at the dam earlier today. I walked down the service road and looked for
the Hawfinch but there was no sign this afternoon but I did have a Water Rail,
Tree Sparrow and Brambling.
I went with Colin Towe to
dunlin hide on lagoon four to scan the gulls but there was no sign of the
Glaucous amongst the numerous large gulls.
The gulls slowly increased and around 17:00 I saw the Glaucous Gull drop
in. It was rather a dark individual but
easily identified as a first-winter and there was also a first-winter Caspian
Gull found as well.
It was a good finish to the
afternoon despite the diver again not playing ball.
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