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| first-winter Caspian Gull this morning |
A gull-watching session at the main lake at Beddington on Tuesday was rewarded with single juveniles of
Glaucous and
Iceland Gulls, as well as a first-winter
Yellow-legged Gull with an abnormally coloured bill, seen earlier this winter at the London Wetland Centre and along the Thames further east. There was also a rather peculiar bird which I took to be a Herring x Caspian.
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| juvenile Glaucous Gull (right) on Tuesday, being a bit of a d*ck |
With nothing else to do while Storm Doris ravaged the land, I thought I'd return for more this morning and took shelter in the hide with Kevin G. Frustratingly, the wind was regularly gusting strong enough to practically lift the gulls up off both the island and water's surface without any notice and I only managed to photograph one of the decent gulls seen, a first-winter
Caspian Gull, the other two notables being the juvenile
Glaucous Gull again and a nice adult
Yellow-legged Gull.
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| presumed hybrid Herring x Caspian Gull, first-winter, on Tuesday |
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| first-winter Caspian Gull this morning |
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| juvenile Iceland Gull on Tuesday |
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| abberant first-winter Yellow-legged Gull |
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Kestrel was at home in Belmont on 22nd.
