It has been a little while.
I would normally make more visits to the Blackball roost of a winter, but the weather's been what it's been and when I have been it's been, well awful. Yes, always gulls, but often nothing else. [Shags and so forth don't count. {Sorry, but you don't}]
But on Sunday I gave it another go and was shocked to find some birds. What was less shocking was my autofocus throwing the toys out...
Behold all I was allowed;
Calmest the sea's been for a while
There were actual birds! Not just gulls, either. 103 GC Grebes is the highest count I've had there this winter, easily. Also 7 GND and 3 RTD, plus 3 scoter spp., which didn't have pale cheeks but I could get nothing else on them.. 730+ large gulls at 1745.
A couple of Guillemots and the usual Shags made up the numbers, with only a scattering of BHGs and Common Gulls. No Kittiwakes.
Lookit, blobs!
One of the GC Grebe rafts. No, really.
Look hard...
Much better than expected.
:)
[And this post much shorter than you expected!]
Be Seeing You...
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