Sutton Bingham - Sun 25 Feb

After the excitement of the Ross's Gull twitch to Weymouth this morning, I stayed closer to home this afternoon and took a walk out at the reservoir. Not much happening with thirty-six Wigeon and two Teal at the southern end, a male Reed Bunting and then from the northern causeway an Iceland Gull! I couldn't believe it, what a cracker.

I'd been hoping for a "white-winger" at Sutton Bingham this winter due to the fairly good numbers seen in the south-west and this Iceland Gull was a really nice bird and noticeably darker than the first-winter that I found here last February.
The only other bird of note was an adult summer-plumaged Mediterranean Gull just south of the car park.
Sutton Bingham year list 2018 now at 69 species.