I hate the fact that the evenings are drawing in - it means that visits to the patch after work always have to be fairly cursory affairs, as has been the case tonight, and on Wednesday. Both visits were fairly uneventful; Wednesday produced a single Dunlin and 2 Curlew on Mons Pool, plus an adult Yellow-legged Gull, 180 Lesser Black-backs and 2 1cy Herring Gulls in the roost on Ferry Lane Lake.
Tonight saw 1 Greenshank, 3 Green Sands and 4 Snipe on Mons Pool. Having purchased Martin Garner's latest book and been reading about ageing Snipe (all set to find a Wilson's Snipe on Scilly next month), I can say that at least one of them was a 1cy - the others didn't show well enough though. Onto Ferry Lane Lake, and what was probably a second Greenshank called but didn't show, and the gull roost held c.1000 Black-headed Gulls, 300 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 1cy Herring Gulls, and 3 Yellow-legged Gulls - 2 adults and a nice 2cy.
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