TrevorOnTour posted: " Adult Sabine's Gull - Cley Marshes today Monday is our Cley 'duty day'. It was mid-morning when the radio sprang into life - Jane, 'Trevor, are you still in Bishop's hide - only I've got a weird gull on Pat's'. Trevor, 'I'm just on the board-walk, hea"
Monday is our Cley 'duty day'. It was mid-morning when the radio sprang into life - Jane, 'Trevor, are you still in Bishop's hide - only I've got a weird gull on Pat's'. Trevor, 'I'm just on the board-walk, heading for the central hides now.' I get to Teal Hide and start scanning, as the bird has temporarily disappeared from view. Out in the middle I spot a small, elegant gull with a dark head and bill, mid-grey back and long 'spotted' primaries - it can't be surely - an adult Sabine's Gull! I have a moment of panic, re-check the id features on the Collins app, before phoning Steve to spread the news. Unfortunately at that exact moment the birds decides to go airborne. Thankfully it does a circuit of the main scrapes before landing back on Pat's, in front of Bishop's hide, where it stays for another five minutes before taking to the wing again and heading up and away over the Centre. It eventually returns and settles in the tern roost on Arnold's. After lunch it relocated to Brakish Pool, where it spent most of the afternoon, much to the relief of the steady flow of admiring visitors. A really smart bird - unfortunately only captured on my iPhone.
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