As you may have already read on my previous post, last Saturday was a good day at Shawell. Amongst the 1000+ Lesser Black-backed Gulls was a really smart second calendar year gull, which took my eye. I have read the paper 'Field identification criteria for second calendar-year Baltic Gull' several times and so when I saw this gull had tar black primaries my alarm bells started to ring. Luckily I was able to get a bit of video footage of it, which is not easy on the working area of the tip.
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I will leave you to enjoy the video and form your own opinions. If you do have any thoughts on this gull please let me know either by commenting or emailing me using the contact bit on this blog.
Thanks for looking.
I will leave you to enjoy the video and form your own opinions. If you do have any thoughts on this gull please let me know either by commenting or emailing me using the contact bit on this blog.
Thanks for looking.