I'm definitely feeling the change in the weather this week. And this morning I shelved today's plans for a birdwatching day out (none of which were very firm anyway). Which gives me a chance to watch the blue tits and spadgers on the feeders. And a passing cormorant overhead.
The gulls coming into the school playing field for the lunchtime feeding frenzy included half a dozen lesser black-backs and a nice first-Winter yellow-legged gull. At first I thought it was a second-Winter herring gull but it had a big black beak and the nearly all-dark wings, quite a lot of streaking on the mantle and clean white rump and tail base and clear-cut black tail band clinched the ID. There's usually one passing through most Autumns. They never turn up at weekends when I can point binoculars and big camera lenses over there, luckily this one drifted over this way a bit while the gulls were waiting for the kids to go back in to classes.
No comments:
Post a Comment