So, 2014 is over. The last of the Christmas pudding has been eaten and the last fireworks of New Years Eve have finally fizzled out and with it comes a clean year at which to look forward. 2015 will bring new challenges to us all, but as ever, I will be partially concerned with adding new birds to my life lists and trying to get anywhere near my PBC record total of 182. Yes, 182! During the dying embers of the previous year I managed to add another two birds to my 2014 PBC list, 4 Egyptian Geese at Deeping Lakes NR and a rather fine juvenile Glaucous gull at Dogsthorpe Star Pit.
This big brute of a white winger was present along with a second year Iceland gull and was reported by Jonathon Taylor on the 29th December. And so, I ended 2014 as I had pretty much started, scanning thousands of gulls just outside the local tip in the hope of connecting with this rather fine specimen.
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| He's in the above and below photo, can you spot him? |
I wish everyone a peaceful and prosperous New Year and here's to a few 'ticks' in 2015.
