After finishing my early shift at the general, I drove over to Cut End, which is the Witham/Wash river mouth(Basically were the river meets the sea!), near Boston, Lincs. I was told that the the best time to go was around hide tide with a north-east blow to push the birds close towards the river mouth. Arriving at the Cut End Hide at around 5.00pm in the middle of high tide, I joined the group of birders who watching the sea. My sightings of the next couple of hours included: 16 Arctic Skuas, 1 Bonxie, 1 Fulmar, 10+ Sandwich Terns, at least 30+ Eiders, a single Common Scoter (10 metres off the hide!) and good numbers of the usual waders. Scanning the nearby salt marshes I also picked up at least 7 Marsh Harriers , and over 40 Little Egrets . Although I couldn't pick up the long staying King Eider at this site due to the choppy conditions I was pleased what I had seen at this new site for me and would visit it again as soon as possible. As I walked back to the car the final sightin
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I know you can't be asked to go have a look at the Mew Gull but a couple of members of the BBRC,Mr Vinnicombe and Brett Richards have been over!? ;-]
I note that no-one who really knows what they're talking about has come out and said "yes it's definitely a Mew Gull", and on that basis alone you have to suspect that either it isn't one, or they aren't identifiable out of range. Doesn't bode well for it ever being accepted and/or split!