Lunchtime twitch for Dartmouth Park Little Gull

The new week brought a different start that came by the way of a first winter Little Gull. The bird was reported the previous day at Dartmouth Park close to West Bromwich. The benefit for me was this park is just four miles from work so the perfect excuse to leave the desk for a rare lunch break. 

Parking by the high ropes course at Sandwell Valley, it was just a case of heading up the steps to the boating lake where the bird showed extremely well. The bird was as close as six feet at times enabling me to get some great footage before returning to work.