11th Feb - cloudy, murky, cold, 2C, light NE, occasional light drizzle/winters shower.

A proper grey winters day - but still not that bad really for winter, very little serious cold weather yet.

I visited Shawell lagoons after lunch, not many Gulls there, a few Lapwing and single Mute Swan and Great-crested Grebe, Tufted Duck up at 20 today.

I moved on to the landfill site, the weather was really murky, light was not good and the NE wind blowing right in to my face.  The wind direction meant that all the Gulls were facing directly away, head in to the wind, so lots of tail-on views.

Carl picked out a Juv Glaucous Gull half hidden behind another Gull, then I found a juv Iceland Gull on a bank side taking shelter from the wind.   Although there was 2000-3000 Gulls at the landfill, from my viewing point most were not visisble, but they kept coming and going to the shallow pools I could see, so one had to keep searching through them.

Carl spotted an interesting Gull, it had head and bill of a Glaucous Gull, but had pale brown primaries and similar wide tail band, this looked good for a Glaucous x Herring Gull hybrid (Viking Gull), which is quite common in the northern breeding territories.