Having missed the Glaucous Gull earlier in the week I decided to venture out early to Shoreham Fort. Things didn't look too hopeful when I arrived, several birders reporting a no show. However, it was pleasant standing around in the early morning sunshine, a change not to be soaked or blown away. Then, just as I was thinking of giving up, the bird was located on the eastern side of the harbour, fairly distant but recorded and ticked. The bird then took off and did a flyby before returning to the harbour wall. This movement caused the assembled birders to scatter in search of the bird, which obligingly repeated the flyby, this time closer, before settling in the inner harbour for a snooze amongst the Herring Gulls.
Nice to make the re-acquaintance of several birders that I have met in the past, especially Dave Smith otherwise known on Flickr as Grandalfthegrey , who I last met at Lavington some two years ago - doesn't time fly?
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