On a rainy Sunday it makes sense to go to the London Wetland Centre so Josh B and I headed up there for a quick look. I'm glad I signed up for membership again last time, it's a nice reserve to add a bit of extra variety to my routine birding. Some guys were on a juvenile
Iceland Gull when we arrived in the Peacock Tower, looking like the regular Beddington bird but not sticking for long at all, and I picked out a second-winter
Caspian Gull and a first-winter
Yellow-legged Gull (one of the birds from Beddington the other day, I'm sure). I was even happier to see a distant
Jack Snipe bobbing around and there seemed to be an increase in
Wigeon since my last visit, at 54 birds. A pair of
Pintail was also showing, as was the hybrid
Aythya.
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| second-winter Caspian Gull |
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| first-winter Yellow-legged Gull |
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| juvenile Iceland Gull |
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| very smart first-winter Lesser Black-backed Gull |
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| adult ♂ Pintail |
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| adult ♂ Wigeon |
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| Great Crested Grebe |
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| Jack Snipe! |
