Iceland Gull at last!

On 30th March, a tweet from James B stating that the Iceland was currently on groynes opposite the Netposts had me going to twitch the bird for the fifteenth time and it was fifteenth time (tried 10X North Beach, 5X at Gunton Church Field) lucky as James was still there when I arrived ten minutes later. The fine 1st winter Iceland Gull perched on the far groyne before flying down settling on the sea and swimming over and feeding on the seaweed around the groyne posts. It then flew back to the groyne again. James tweeted that a female Black redstart was by the compound (east of the Oval) and I walked down and saw it perched along the southern edge perimeter fence. Back at the Iceland Gull, it stayed put perched on the groynes until 5.37pm, when it flew inland along North Parade and over Lyndhurst road.