More Meds than you can shake a....

An afternoon out with Paul G in the windy conditions focussed on checking potential gull sites on our way down to the roost at Dale (via a speculative tromp across Dale Airfield in the hope of pulling a Killdeer out of the bag!). A check of the set-aside fields at Camrose was unproductive (save for a fly over Reed Bunting), so we headed W and at Haroldston a recently muck-spread field littered with Black-headed Gulls revealed no fewer than 7 Med Gulls (5 ad, 1 2ndW, 1 1stW). A stop at Goultrop Roads, S of Little Haven, produced another 5 Meds (4 ad, 1 1stW) and 4 Great Northern Divers. At Talbenny a beet field loaded with gulls gave us another 2 Meds, a nice adult and 1stW. Finally at Dale, an excellent gull roost from the sea front which had more Lesser Black-backed Gulls than normal (400+) held at least 15 Meds, 14 adults & 1 1stW. 3.5 hours of birding revealed at least 29 Med Gulls - nice! A Great Northern Diver here, close to the quay at Dale Fort, presumably the bird seen by Rosemary.