The Daventry Country Park Sabine’s Gull

A juvenile Sabine’s Gull was found by local rarity legend, Gary Pullan late afternoon on September 13^th and attracted birders from far and wide including international expert, Yoav Perlman from Israel who is currently residing in Norwich.

The bird was very confiding and spent much of its time foraging along the water’s edge and regularly flew around showing its contrasting wing pattern.

Observers noticed a partially closed left eye and the bird looked unwell on Friday evening when it was last seen. Let’s hope it survived and is relocated for the sake of the bird and the local birders unable to connect during the week.  

This is the 11th sighting of this Arctic wanderer for Northants.

Edit: No further sign of the bird since the evening of Friday 15th September.