I made a trip over to a North Thames Gull Group session along with a couple of other Runnymede RG members at Rainham on this occasion. The temperature was around minus 5 but with no wind to speak of and sunshine it made the day quite pleasant and bearable. The tip was fairly busy with Gulls, with a good number of Common Gulls present, probably having been pushed off their usual feeding haunts, with the fields frozen hard. A couple of catches were made, with two fairly quick fires, resulting in 437 Gulls being caught.
Common Gull - age 7i
Tipping area
2nd catch
Yellow-legged Herring Gull - 3
Yellow-legged Gull - adult (10)
Totals (new - 423 , re-trap - 5, controls - 9)
Black-headed Gull - 182 (7)
Common Gull - 44
Herring Gull - 158 (6|)
Yellow-legged Gull - 2
Greater Black-backed Gull - 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 35 (1)
