A good start to the day as when walking from the house across the field to the train station I found a Stonechat (female type) in the hedge. The Foxton autumn passage begins!
The westerly wind suddenly picked up in the evening with heavy showers and Fowlmere proved hard work, producing just a Teal and the winter’s first Snipe. However an adult looking (though see below) Yellow-legged Gull was briefly seen in the field bordering the reserve amongst a hand-full of Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
Whilst driving home I passed another flock of about thirty, mostly adult, Lesser Black-backs along Fowlmere Road in Foxton. I was late to take Sam to football in Shepreth but returned to take a look and found a third summer Yellow-legged Gull.
