Saturday morning, and it was back to Cotham Landfill for another crack at a white-winged gull. And again, nothing. There are still decent numbers of Herring Gulls at the landfill (maybe 1000?), but GBBG numbers were well down, with less than 100. No Caspo's either, so I had to amuse myself by looking at a couple of pale-tipped young Herring Gulls.
I managed only local birding on Sunday, due to an away hockey match in Oundle, the 3-0 loss eased slightly by a couple of Red Kites cavorting low over the pitch on several occasions - slightly off-putting! A quick run round Collingham Pits late in the day failed to produce anything of great note; best were 6 Goosander (one drake) on Ferry Lane Lake
Another, brief visit was paid to Gonalston today in hope of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker coming to feeders, but it was a no-show in the half-hour I could give it. And a sign of the times when there were more birders looking for the LSW than at the Glossy Ibis... Another later afternoon look at the patch again didn't produce much - I was hoping for (in fact, expecting) the site's first Oystercatcher and/or Ringed Plover of the year, with both present at Langford, but no luck today.
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