Glaucous Gull, Fisher's Mill
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous Gull 2w 
Glaucous Gull 2wThursday 28th January 2010
It had been a fairly regulation visit, a check of most of the likely large wheat fields round Bodymoor Heath looking for Geese and then a walk round the Water Park ending up at Fishers Mill. A couple of Little Egrets, a few Jays and a few small flocks of Lesser Redpolls and Goldfinch were the highlights. I met Geoff Williams at Fisher's Mill and he passed on the news that John Mallinson had just spotted a 2nd or 3rd winter Glaucous Gull from his vantage point on one of the Dosthill mounds. It didnt take Geoff and myself long to pick out the Glaucous gull on the more northerly Fisher's Mill pool in company with a few other large gulls. White winged gulls have been few and far between in the Midlands so far this winter so this one was a real treat.
Bob, the Glaucous Gull remains one of several larids that continue to defy Fay and I. In all our years of birding Stafforshire -and to a lesser extent the West NMidlands [poor students with little spare cash]- we never quite caught up with this critter. Hope springs eternally. Perhaps on this coming September trip.
ReplyDeleteIn the meanwhile we remain inspired by your good fortune.
Julian