Willey; a check of the feed station produced 4 Tree Sparrows and 2 Yellowhammers plus all the regulars, including at least 10 GreatTits, 4+Blue Tits, with a hen Pheasant present today. A Sparrowhawk flew in and made all dive for cover before it moved off hunting. c25 Redwing flew over and settled in the back field tree tops.
Cotesbach Landfill; after lunch I arrived here to find the site with masses of Gulls, but by the time I put my boots on and got ready they had practically all moved off - annoyingly they do this sometimes for no apparent reason. A Kestrel flew over and a couple of Buzzards. It became obvious that many Gulls had landed in the adjacent sand quarry area, so I moved to a new location to view them. Carl was present too and he spotted several colour ringed Gulls and a Yellow-legged Gull. However, it was long before the Gulls rose again and set off towards the landfill again, they really seemed to behaving differently today. So, we decided to move to the Shawell Lagoons.
Shawell Lagoons; there were only a handful of Gulls present, but waited to see if others would drop in. An immature Peregrine flew in and tried to catch a feral pigeon, it faled and tried a few more arttempts at anything it could. Then aflock of ~120 Lapwings flew over and looked to land, but only 1 did. On the Lagoons were a Great-crested and Little Grebe with only a few Tufted Ducks today.
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