After a tip-off from regular visitor Richard Berridge about a Dartford Warbler first thing this morning at Langdon hole I scurried up the cliff and watched it shadowing a pair of stonechats along the path above the harbour field, the first dartford I’ve seen here on the patch so I was happy about that.
A male Marsh Harrier flew high and west and a white wagtail was briefly on the tramway before flying west along the cliffs whilst i looked for the warbler.
Shakey beach was back in action after so long with nothing of interest, A visit after lunch produced the sub adult Glaucous Gull that Russ and Mark had seen there during the week, it came to bread and performed very nicely.
Its upper mandible is damaged, but it managed to feed so perhaps will be ok.
My first Caspian Gull in months came to bread at shakey too along with 2 first winter YLGs. A check of the harbour this evening produced another 2 different 1st Winter YLGs but nothing else of note.
PERDIX BIRDER 