The highlight of today was seeing 10 species of gull (which included 3 Glaucous Gulls) at Sea Palling. There was a load of Razor Clams washed up during the week by the strong easterly winds and now thousands of gulls have arrived in the area to join in on the shellfish feast.
The rough totals were:
Glaucous Gull - 3 (all 1st winters, but there was also a 3rd-winter in the area that I didn't see).
Yellow-legged Gull - 7
Little Gull - 9
Mediterranean Gull - 6
Kittiwake - 10
Common Gull - 1000+
Black-headed Gull - 1000+
Herring Gull - 500
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 300
Great Black-backed Gull - 100
2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull
Adult Yellow-legged Gull (top), adult Lesser Black-backed Gull (middle), 1st-winter Herring Gull (lower-right) and 2nd-winter Common Gull (lower-left)
the 2cy gull on the water above is different from the one this evening but it may have been the more distant one we saw in the field. It has that pale area around the snout and is a bird I saw a few days ago. The bird late this afternoon was much paler, with a nick/prominent uneveness in the right secondaries and doing its regular patrol along the wall, so it does look to be three 2cy and a 4cy at present.
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the 2cy gull on the water above is different from the one this evening but it may have been the more distant one we saw in the field. It has that pale area around the snout and is a bird I saw a few days ago. The bird late this afternoon was much paler, with a nick/prominent uneveness in the right secondaries and doing its regular patrol along the wall, so it does look to be three 2cy and a 4cy at present.
Amazing stuff.
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