Sunday 2 July 2017

Back on the old patch ... Nosterfield Quarry ... Sabine's Gull now in its seventh day ...

This is a great record for Nosterfield ... a great record for any inland site ... and a good record for anywhere in Britain ...


... it was also one of the wettest days I've known ... luckily this first-summer bird was on the near shore so a few 'phone-scope shots were just about possible ...



... it walked along the shore in wader-style as it fed ...

... as I had previously had only flight views and often distant ones of this species of gull, I was particularly keen to see it ...

... there is always something about a high Arctic breeder ... and one that winters far away in the oceans of the southern hemisphere ... and normally lives a highly pelagic existence ...


... Nosterfield is a great reserve and one that has continued to change and improve over the four decades that I've known it ...

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