26th January - I ventured down for the gull roost this afternoon. The 3 drake Pintail remain. There were good numbers of LWHG to look through, but only small numbers of BHG/Commons, which had maybe already departed to another roost site. No hoped for white-wingers tonight, but a nice 1st winter Caspian Gull. This is the same bird as seen last week, but not the previously regular large male. It is a smaller bird and has very obvious regular largish dark diamond marks on the scaps. It never comes in close when the light is reasonable for a photo, so I still haven't got a record of it yet, but if it stays regular, hopefully I will soon.
A Little Egret appeared in the island willow late on and a Green Sand called when it was too dark to see it.
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