Category Archives: Gulls

more pics from yesterday Showing its appearance in flight (from Mark the Pieman) and v nice pic from Paul Hackett. Some other frame fillers, which you may have seen but if not:  here. . Juvenile Thayer’s Gull, Elsham, Lincs, 6.4.12 by Mark Reeder Juvenile … Continue reading →

In Lincolnshire, Britain V. nice morning outing with Roy (Orbison) Twigg, Mark Reeder and Ray the Voice. Arrived at just the right moment to drop onto good views of a stunning looking, rather dark juvenile Thayer’s Gull. As we were leaving a little later it appeared even … Continue reading →

Wing-tips Like the teenage dream of the imaginary perfect boyfriend or girlfriend I sometimes wonder if the search image some folk have a vagrant juvenile Thayer’s Gull in Britain, is a bird which doesn’t actually exist! So to spice up the discussion here are 2 juvenile Thayer’s Gulls. The primaries are still growing, so I think its … Continue reading →

pale heuglini/ taimyrensis or lookalike? Most gull photos I receive to comment on usually fall into one of several ‘expected categories’. Not this one. Dean Nicholson’s regular search of the gulls flocks in Lincoln’s southwest corner (North Hykeham) produced this bird. Seen briefly on 16th March 2012, very well … Continue reading →

North Cheshire Probably the most popular bird to learn from on Saturdays’ Gull Masterclass was this 1st winter (2nd cal. year) Yellow-legged Gull seen both at the tip and Richmond Bank giving excellent on the ground and in-flight views. The full variety of gull … Continue reading →

and a head scratcher Few more Pics of some of the gulls on Minsmere scrape from last Friday (9th March). It was an excellent mixture with all ages of both Caspian and Yellow-legged Gull. Would have made a good gull masterclass! Didn’t try to photograph everything … Continue reading →

The Scrape, Minsmere,  9th March 2012 Venue of the annual BBRC AGM. I arrived to text from Alan Davies saying there were Caspian Gulls on the scrape. Quick drive around to Dunwich car park, paid an extortionate £5 to park and heading to … Continue reading →

A ringed Marsh Gull Dean Nicholson’s persistence with the gulls has paid off. Watching at Hykeham, Lincolnshire he came across a yellow-legged Herring Gull in early February 2012. – an ‘omissus-type’. Big news was it had a readable ring on. … Continue reading →

An adult on Texel Thought I would flag this up before the forthcoming gull days- One to be looking for. One of the fun birds to find with the guys on Texel was this adult Russian Common Gull ssp. heinei. Info on identification on these is … Continue reading →

A comment There was a great set of responses to Steve Arlow’s Essex gull here When a first saw the images I said to Steve that it reminded me  of  some barabensis- particularly the Caspian Gull end (also called Steppe Gull- referring to  large gulls breeding especially over  central Asia and wintering roughly  in … Continue reading →