When you get a text alert from the King of Upton Warren "John Belsey" you know something good has landed. The level of the good news is dependant where you are and can you get there. On Wednesday lunchtime a juvenile Sabine's Gull had been discovered and was moving between the sailing lake & the Moors.
I squeezed out of work a little earlier than normal and after a battle with the M5 roadworks duly arrived to find the King licking his lips after devouring a piece of bread and butter pudding and purring after bagging Great White Egret, Bairds Sandpiper & now a Sabine's Gull on the patch challenge, all within two weeks.
Sabine's Gulls breed in north America, Greenland and Siberia but do often appear on the coast in autumn on migration. Whilst certainly not as stunning as the bird I saw in Manchester last year the Gull was quite distinctive and the photo show how diminutive a bird compared to a Black-headed Gull.
This was the third record at Upton Warren & the eighth in Worcestershire. How it made its way to Upton in this calm period of weather we will never know but it was a great bird to see so close to home and on the way back from work.
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