I bet you've all been rabidly waiting for my world-famous Common Gull Counts. What with the crap weather and much-higher water levels this autumn I've only "done" 11 of them so far. For those who don't know why I'm doing them, it is all because a few years ago the Common Gulls simply didn't arrive as they usually do each winter .... but that time they didn't. So I now count them each winter ....always hoping, of course, that occasionally something better might turn up.... occasional Med Gulls, the unlikely but well-worth-waiting-for Iceland and Glaucous versions turning up. So ..here's the results so far. 7/361 means that there were 7 Commons in a flock of 361 . Here's the results so far ..... it's a bit early for "the graphs" yet ..... 2nd Sept 21 0/69 5th Sept 21 2/229 12th Sept 21 6/193 I Heron 13 Sept 21 2/107 12 Canada Geese flew over 16th Sept 2/110 20th Sept 8/177 26th Sept 19/162 (!!) Cripes was what I actually wrote. 14th Oct 4/166 25th Oct 17/356 Drizzle 30th Oct 0/0 Low tide .... but due to RAIN it was a raging torrent. 12th Nov 5/177 + 1 RB Merganser So .... the intrepid counter (me) has got off to a good start. Well ... a start . Let's have a bit of beautiful celebratory music ..... .... Death Cab for Cutie .... and the wonderful " Marching Bands of Manhattan " .. music doesn't get much better than this .... ..and here's the "singalong" version ... absolutely beautiful ...
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