Wrong side of Abingdon for Bittern (again!), but female SCAUP present throughout visit along with much reduced waterfowl numbers from recent times: c260 Coot, c30 Teal, c10 Gadwall, small numbers of Tufted, Pochard and Wigeon. NO GC Grebes, Little Grebes, Shoveler or Geese and only around 10 Mute Swans after they flew in from SW.
GLAUCOUS GULL: First winter arrived around 3.50 and stayed till at least 4.15pm.
Caspian Gull: adult bird one of the first large gulls to arrive at roost, which only totalled around 200 when leaving, with probably another 100 passing through NE- ish. No Y-l Gull but at least two colour ringed Black-backs not seen before, but in light too dark to get readable photos (worth looking out for folks?). Adult and 2 x 1stW Common Gulls and about 10 BH's to roost after some 60 flew off. All in all, an extremely different situation to the past month or so.
Well done Ian, I think your Casser's a first
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