Port Meadow Birding

A later afternoon run around the patch found very little: there were just 6 golden plover which flew in whilst I was there so it's possible that more might come in to roost later. A single snipe was flushed from the hinterland. There was a small party of perhaps a dozen black-headed gulls loafing on the Meadow though they soon flew off. The usual meadow pipits, pied wagtails, lapwings, linnets and goldfinches still around on the Meadow itself but otherwise very quiet at present.

It's nice to see some gulls back on the Meadow albeit in small numbers. This black-headed gull shot was actually taken last year © Adam Hartley