Gorgeous Gulls!

Ok, so the Thayer's Gull at Minsmere looks the business, and perhaps if I didn't have other commitments a quick trip back to the motherland would have been the order of the day today; instead, I had a lie-in during the worst of Storm Katie, and then headed to the patch mid-morning, spurred on by news of Little Gulls from elsewhere in Notts. And bingo, 3 Little Gulls were dip-feeding over Ferry Lane Lake as I arrived. They looked lovely, just getting their black hoods and with a pink tinge to their bodies. Also present were around 85 Sand Martins battling the wind, amongst which were my first three Swallows of the Spring.