Snowed in for two days, Whooohooo!!

Unfortunately it was not an at home snowed in but a visit to the ancestorals in Devon
but never mind did manage to get out for a few hours on a couple of days, so did the Taw and Torridge Estuaries for some much needed new species, like Grey Plovers, Sanderling, Spot Shanks etc.

Smart birds the Grey Plover

The start of the snow storms was just a few flakes!!.

The odd Rock Pipit proved nice.

So having got back I spent some time at Priorslee having heard that the Glaucous Gull was seen on the Wednesday, so there early, it was quite, then after about an hour in drop's this white winged gull , the initial reaction was the Glaucous, then small things did not stack up.

The overall size was to small! the beak pattern was not the two tone (pink and black) the primaries were not white they were brown edged in white, all very reminicent of a Glaucous winged gull, barring the beak having a offf colour base!!! so you make up your own mind.

More tomorrow!!!

Cheers

Paul