Feb 12th

Cold dull wet and windy not ideal conditions for birding so only managed a quick check today and yes it's still present 32 days now for the female Long-tailed Duck . Also the pair of Shoveler have returned again god knows were they go to . The four Little Grebe's were battling the wind along the northern shore , still good numbers of Tufted Duck and Coots but no counts taken today. Around 50 Black- headed Gulls were also battling the conditions sitting there facing north east into the wind along with two adult Herring Gulls and three adult and one 2nd winter Lesser-black Backed Gulls. The image below is of the 2nd Winter L B B Gull which is a different individual to that which was photographed the other day.

Lesser Black Backed Gull (2nd Winter).