There had been a juvenile Glaucous Gull and an adult Iceland Gull at the
sandpit at Shawell in Leicestershire and both had been reported again this
morning and so I went hoping to catch up with them. It is only a thirty minutes drive to Shawell
and I was on site by 13:45. Dave Grey
was already there and he had seen the Iceland Gull, a Caspian Gull and three
Yellow-legged Gulls but they had all flown off presumably to the tip.
There were still plenty of gulls in the sandpit, mainly Black-headed,
European Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls but also smaller numbers of
Common Gulls and a few Great Black-backed Gulls. I was on site until 16:15, during which time
Chris Hubbard and another birder from Northamptonshire joined us but there was
no further sign of either of the white-winged gulls or the Yellow-legged Gulls but
I did see the Caspian Gull. There were
two Red Kites and a Common Buzzard over the area and another Common Buzzard to
the south and a large falcon with jessies caused major disturbance both on the
pit and the tip but unfortunately didn’t induce the white-winged gulls to put
in an appearance. I succumbed to the
cold eventually and left for home with still many gulls present, although some
did appear to be departing and presumably heading for the roost at Draycote
Water.
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