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Nice male Red-breasted Merganser off Unity Park, Barton Cove this afternoon - present through to dusk and then flew upriver and out of sight. Gull numbers were small this evening, the smallest for a while with perhaps less than 300 hundred birds but still containing the two regular adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls and a first-cycle Kumlien's Gull.
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