Warm as toast!

Saturday 7th Jan. First day out today wearing my new thermals and down jacket and I was as warm as toast. In fact I was too warm and ended up having to take a layer off, leaving me with just the thermals and the jacket! It was such a pleasure to be able to lift bins up and not feel like I was fighting multi-layers trying to stop my bins from reaching my eyes.  I can thoroughly recommend Helly Hansen 'warm' merino wool thermals...astonishing!

Great day on the birding front but boy was the reserve busy. Three goosanders were good fly-bys from the platform but best of all was an adult Iceland gull that put itself on theyear list by flying right through my field of view as I was sea-watching. A minute later it landed on the beach and for a time was foraging right next to an adult Med gull. A quick call on the radio resulted in a rush for the beach, the fitter birders managing to get on the bird before it disappeared east. There was also an adult Med gull in the afternoon roost.