This weekend saw the annual gull ringing trip. Haven’t toted up the totals from the ringing teams yet but its roughly 140 lesser and a dozen or so herring gulls. Billy Whiz also caught three meadow pipits and a rock pippit

Other species recorded – woodpigeon, shellduck, oystercatcher, blackcap, robin, dunnock, swallow, raven, magpie, greenfinch, blackbird, wren, meadow and rock pipit and pied wagtail.