A couple of juvenile MEDITERRANEAN GULLS were also in amongst the throng of Black-headed Gulls
This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert highlighting all records of avian interest and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers and utilising additional information gleaned from the Regional Birdlines, BirdGuides, local email groups and individual observers
Wednesday 5 August 2015
A close encounter of the SABINE'S GULL kind...
Unusually strong SW/West winds during the first few days of August 2015 resulted in the finding of Greater Manchester's 5th SABINE'S GULL on 4th - showing down to literally just a few yards close to the Horrock's Hide at Pennington Flash Country Park. The bird quickly drew a large crowd, culminating in well over 300 visitors during the course of the day, as it associated with a large Black-headed Gull flock waiting for scraps on the mere. Although I was at Spurn Point when I heard of it's finding, it was a bird I could not resist seeing and after a drive of 98 miles across the M62, I eventually arrived on site just after 3pm. It was nice seeing so many well-known faces - all of local origin - and the bird, well, just look - showing well you could say, thanks to the car park burger van and her supply of soft buns........