A juvenile Sabine's Gull was reported on the Mersey at Hale in the evening of 8th. An amazing record at a relatively inland location, but I hadn't expected it to stay so continued with my plans to pay homage to the vulture. News duly came through that the bird was still present, so I called in on the way back. I was assuming it was loafing distantly on the estuary, as might be expected from a pelagic species originating from the high arctic, but this individual had chosen to forage behind a muck-spraying tractor on the arable fields that I know well from last year's work surveys. A superb wee bird.
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