A late afternoon visit to check out the gull roost was actually worth while today (a visit yesterday evening had failed to produce anything of note). Around five thousand gulls had gathered by the time I left when the light started to fail, and amongst the masses I located seventeen Mediterranean Gulls, sixteen adults and a first-winter. It is very possible that there were a couple more as due to the location of the roost tonight I could not check the entire flock.
The bulk of the gull roost consisted of Black-headed Gulls (c.2500) with a similar number of Herring Gulls. Thirty or so Common Gulls and half a dozen Lesser Black-backed Gulls made up the rest.
The only other bird of note tonight was a Mistle Thrush, whilst a flock of around 150 Linnets were present a couple of miles down the road between East and West Coker.
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