Yesterday on the Otter my first Willow Warblers of the year with a number of birds feeding on the flowering Blackthorn in the early evening sunshine.
Today the clear highlight was finding a presumed 2nd Cal Year (1st Winter) Glaucous Gull in the early evening. Although I only had binocular views it seemed to show a dark iris from the photos and a dark tipped bill with no hint of a pale tip. Typically for the Otter, it was completely random and present with a relatively small number of gulls and then flew off and headed east along the coast after just a couple of minutes. It was a particularly striking white plumaged bird and quite similar to the last bird I found here on April 9th 2018
Also today, two Water Pipits coming into summer plumage were present in the morning.
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Glaucous Gull - Otter Estuary, presumed 2nd Cal Year / 1st Winter |
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Glaucous Gull - Otter Estuary, presumed 2nd Cal Year / 1st Winter |
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Glaucous Gull - Some flecking on the Undertail |
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Glaucous Gull departing the Otter Estuary |
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Willow Warbler, Otter Estuary |
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Water Pipit - One of two birds present today |
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Peacock Butterfly on Goat Willow |
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