Grafham 14 March 2013

Following a lone Swallow north along the Ouse late morning, a late afternoon visit to Grafham in relatively benign conditions....

The Slavonian Grebe was still off the Dam as was the male Common Scoter, the gull roost was split so rather awkward to sift through; 6 Yellow-Legged Gulls, 2 second calendar year (first-winter) Caspian Gulls and a single juvenile Iceland Gull (a pale one) were  the pick. 

A couple of other sightings locally in the last few days are worthy of mention; a total of 8 Brent Geese flew north along the Ouse Valley on 9 March on a day when they were on the move across south-east England; a female Merlin at Toseland has, I suspect, been in the general area all winter but who really knows(?).