16 July 2010

Med Gulls at Bracelet Bay

At least 4 colour-ringed birds were among the 24+ Med Gulls present this morning, these being:
White 34K6 [a new bird for me at least]
White 3K80 [a Belgian bird first with us in 2006]
White 3E40 [a Belgian bird first with us in 2005]
Red YHE8 [the Serbian bird reported earlier]
As the tide was in they were on the grass verge and posing nicely for the camera.

2 juveniles (1st calendar year)...

1st summer (2nd calendar year)...

2nd summer (3rd calendar year)...

adult summer (4th calendar year or older)...

An hours seawatch off Tutt Head produced 12 Storm Petrels, 623 Manx Shearwaters, 12 Fulmars, 13 Gannets, 2 Sandwich Terns and 12 Guillemots, all headng west.

3 comments:

Mark Hipkin said...

Great photo's Barry and very nicely demonstrated. Good hours tally from Tut Head too.

Neil Donaghy said...

Two Stormies, 292 Manx and six gannets off Porthcawl yesterday too.

David Carrington said...

Perhaps it shows my age but I am still amazed by flocks of Mediterranean gulls like this in the UK.