WWT Slimbridge sightings 15 January 2007

15 January 2007 The Bittern was still showing, 3 Tundra Bean Geese, 1 Pink-footed Goose, 419 E. White-fronted Geese, first-winter Glaucous Gull, 10 Ruff, 18 Redshank, 2 Spotted Redshank, 1 Knot and two Great Skuas still in the estuary. They were seen to engage in flight and fight on the river (JSL) at 4.00pm. I saw one land on the spartina island this morning. We suspected this as one is moulting primaries and the other it's secondaries and appear different in flight. A Peregrine took a bird among the 5,000 strong Starling roost over the Rushy this evening.

First-winter Glaucous Gull near the Holden Tower, The Dumbles M.J.McGill