Mediterranean Gull at LMGP

Possibly the same bird as on 25th Feb,  As it was in among the mass of Common Gulls it was not too hard to locate.

Mediterranean Gull in the roost

I decided to take a video of the impressive gull roost.  To view the video click here
At least five species of gull are present in the video.

Glaucous Gull at LMGP

A mid afternoon walk to the lake to check if the brisk E wind had brought anything in.  It was bitterly cold!!  I bumped into Kevin Holt in the car park and we walked to the watching area by the bench.  There were perhaps 1500 Gulls present and numbers were gradually building up as the afternoon progressed.  After a few minutes I cam across a large pale Gull well out on the sand spit.  It's pink bill with a black tip and white primaries gave it away as a Glaucous Gull.  This is a scarce bird at this site although there has been one record so far this year.
I put the word out and a few other birders appeared in due course.

Both the Glaucous and a Greater Black-backed Gull
looked around when a Cormorant appeared..

Also present among the c750 flock of Black-headed Gulls was this colour ringed individual "Yellow 2KRC".  It was ringed by the North Thames Ringing Group at Pitsea Landfill Site 21st March 2015 as a 3rd calendar year bird. It was also seen at LMGP in January by Adam Bassett.  There are no other sightings.  The history of this bird can be seen here. 

Garden Birds

I decided to try photography a few of the common garden birds using my camera Panasonic G6 with standard lens on a tripod and controlled remotely by the cameras built in wi-fi.  The set-up was easy to use and the results good.  Thanks to Neil Fletcher for showing me how to use the remote functionality on my camera!

Blue Tit - One of the most common of our garden birds.
Looking extremely smart at this time of year.

Long-tailed Tit - They seem to love the suet blocks and
have been very regular visitors over recent weeks, usually in small flocks.

Coal Tit - Slightly more infrequent than the other two and usually solitary.

Mainly Gulls! - at LMGP

A walk around the lake was reasonably productive with three Chiffchaffs, a GreyWagtail, three Snipe, a Water Rail and thousands of Gulls!!

This Water Rail was feeding in the stream to the east of the lake.

Mediterranean Gull
Seen on the east of the lake but digiscoped from the west side!

Mediterranean Gull 
Possibly the same bird as above but much later and asleep on the west side of the sand spit.

Gull roost on the sand spit.
Mainly mixture of Black-headed, Common, Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Possibly the biggest gull roost I have seen here with an estimated 5000 Common Gulls, 3000 Black-headed Gulls, 50 Herring Gulls and 50 Lesser-Black-backed Gulls.

As usual something spooked the gulls with an impressive result!  A huge flock on the water in the background of this photo did not move.  They extend well to the right of this photo.  Plus there are many more to the left and right foreground of this photo.

Pintail and Red-crested Pochard at LMGP

Pintail are and infrequent visitor to Little Marlow GP, so I took the opportunity to digiscope these two males and a female even though they were very distant.

These Red-crested Pochard were even further away than the Pintail.  Unfortunately it was asleep along with the Common Pochards.  Again another irregular species to the site but there has been a few more records in recent months.