A smart adult Yellow-legged Gull was present this afternoon, taking my footit total to 99.
I have had some information back from the project that GPS tagged the Brent Goose, still present of the lower estuary. They were able to download data from the bird’s logger when it stopped off in spring 2013 at the Frisian Island of Schiermonnikoog, where it was originally tagged. In the 2012 breeding season it was on the fantastically named October Revolution Island, the largest island of the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic. It spent last winter in Bassin d’Arcachon (Bordeaux) and at a site in northern Brittany. Quite why it has turned up at Ogmore Estuary on its own in the middle of winter is anyone’s guess.
Glamorgan Bird Club 
No sign of Yellow-legged Gull later but two Water Pipits were present on Vale side around 15om south of Portobello House feeding with Pied Wagtails. The Brent was still present and an adult Mediterranean Gull was feeding with the large Black-headed Gull flock at the river mouth.