A reasonable morning at Leeshaw weather wise keeping below the cloud base but very dark, grey skies on a S>3 at 5 degrees.
This morning held the largest count of gulls that I,ve ever seen at this location with in excess of 1000 gulls, mainly Black Headed and Common but around 100 Herring and 50 Lesser Black Backed along with 1 1st winter Great Black Backed briefly which stood out with its size and being very aggressive towards other gulls.
No sign of the Med gull though searching was overwhelming today with the birds very mobile, moving from one field to another, often using fields which were in a dip and out of sight.
The best I could muster today, through the scope, was 6 Black Headed with complete black hood, one very dark LBB with all the signs of an intermedius and a adult Herring gull with very dark grey upper parts which looked good for Yellow Legged but they blasted off before I could get anything else on it and failed to re locate it.
Otherwise there were 2 Cormorants, a pair of Goosander and several Redwing moving around the hedges plus the usual Greylags but no Canadas.
BS