Overcast and breezy but it remained dry at Minsmere first thing; the scrapes were busy at first light with a good selection of gulls and wildfowl which largely all left shortly after dawn, these were highlighted by a juvenile Glaucous Gull with big numbers of Great Black-backs and Lesser Black-backs, luckily it stayed a bit longer than a lot of gulls allowing me to get a good look but there was something off about it, especially some darker markings in the primary tips suggesting a hybrid origin.
Also leaving at first light were 8 Goosanders and 820+ Barnacle Geese; other birds through the morning included much larger wildfowl numbers than last time I went, 2 Green Sandpipers, a Great White Egret, a late Hobby over Whin Hill (probably the latest I’ve seen) and a Peregrine.
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