St Helens Birds and Wildlife: Eccleston Mere

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Eccleston Mere

Goldeneye 2 (1m,1f)
Raven 2 flew over cronking
Bullfinch 2(1m,1f male in the hedge down the right, and the female next to the stream)
Willow tit 1 in the dead wood very vocal and finally seen today

Teal 1 at the back of the dead wood being very elusive

Little Grebe 1

Siskin a few with the finch flock but nothing like the numbers of the other day

Redwing 20+ still in the hedges and a few small flocks over

Fieldfare 13 over

Tufted duck 10 (5m,5f)

Kestrel 1

Buzzard 1

Common Gull? 1

I was pleased with my list this morning, I've not seen bullfinch, raven or little grebe at the mere for a while now, and can't remember if I've seen goldeneye there before. The male goldeneye (presumably the one that Paul found the other day) was joined by a female although they were pretty much keeping as far away from each other as possible!

Is the gull a 1st winter common gull?