Wandle - Yellow legged Gull Day

Today is a really momentous day - nope, not Independence Day, not even Yellow legged Gull Day (a patch tick for me, although not a new bird for the site) but it's the day that the date of my blog entries finally match today's date. Today I write about today. This is real time news. The momentousness of this is in no way lessened by the fact that no one's reading this.

Usual walk out with the kids, stop off at playground, scan the Thames (1st summer GBB, a few LBB and Herring Gulls, a couple of cormorants) then on to the mouth of the river Wandle.

Wandle had about 20 Mallard, 7 Tufted, with the males all going into eclipse. The walk along the daylight path and Thames to Wandsworth Park turned up a few more Mallard and Tufted, with 10+ House Martin from the colony on the corner of the park. Then picked up a possible YLG on a post that immediately flew off and headed to the other side of the river before flying around again and landing on one of the barges further out and further upriver - but close enough to get  a positive ID as a YLG. A few photos below.

And a very heavy crop

Also c70 Canucks, 1 Greylag, LBBs, Herring and BH Gull.