A visit after work concentrated on the gull roost which I viewed from the dam tonight. Numbers are growing rapidly and my rough counts are probably well short of the actual number of birds present (and more were arriving as I left). Highlight was a single adult Yellow-legged Gull but other than four Common Gulls there was not much more of note. Herring Gulls were by far the most numerous with at least six hundred present, Lesser Black-backed Gulls numbered around two hundred and at least one hundred and fifty Black-headed Gulls were noted.
PS: I didn't get a chance to do much in the way of patch birding over the weekend, but a quick visit on Saturday 17 October produced a Snipe and two Teal.
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