one more for January

January 26th

After two days of howling north-westerlies there seemed to be a chance of a displaced Iceland or Glaucous Gull; the spring tides produced good gull feeding on the foreshore but after 4 hours all I could managed were 8 Herring, 9 Great and one Lesser Black-back amongst the 200+ Common and 150 Black-headed Gulls; not even a Med again! But what did appear over the Humber was a flock of eight ducks, two Wigeon and six Pintail an outstanding species taking the tally to 104 for the year. The Red-throated Diver, above, was on Hotel pit for a while along with the Smew but otherwise it was best described as a quiet day.