After a morning at home, I left for the Brown Shrike at Staines Moor in Surrey. Seen well. Notes below:
Several Ring-necked Parakeets were also seen (or mostly heard.) I then travelled to Oxford on spec’ in the hope that the atlantis Yellow-legged Gull would be present. It was! On the way, several Red Kites and Buzzards were noted.
As well as the atlantis Yellow-legged, I found two Caspian Gulls (a near adult and a probable 4th calendar year) and two michahellis Yellow-legged Gulls. Detailed notes of all the gulls were made but they are virtually unreadable due to freezing hands! A large number of Red Kites were hanging around the area (double figures most of the time) feeding around the same landfill as the gulls.
