Open wings with L B B Gull in foreground
With a Common Gull in background
With a L B B G behindThis afternoon - no sign of yesterdays Mediterranean Gull but the pictures above are worth having a look at. At first I thought it was a Herring Gull with the paler wings compared with the L B B G. The legs were flesh colour at the top but the lower leg and feet were yellow and the bill looked odd. Andy C also saw the bird and we came away discounting the idea of Yellow-legged Gull but were not convinced about it being a Herring Gull either and thought it was perhaps just an odd LBBG with perhaps some Herring Gull mixed in! - Any ideas??? DJS
Common Tern through this morning between around 10.30 and 10.45 in apalling weather conditions. NK
2 comments:
pretty odd bird this looks more like LBBG than Herring but rather pale, signs of immaturity suggest it's a third summer bird but why so pale? time to do some more resea
no joy with this one I'm afraid, it does show features of both, probable hybrid I'd say, I know it sounds a bit like an excuse but what else could it be
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