Stansted Airport, full English breakfast, board Ryanair to Shannon, Ireland,
pick up hire car.
11.30 hours, we are checking the Gulls on a slipway in Limerick ! ! !
Iceland Gull, juvenile (this Gull did not look healthy, note matted feathers under rump)
Lesser Black-backed Gull, adult
Black-headed Gull, 1st winter
12.15 hours we head north to Galway
arrive 14.30 hours, Nimmo's Pier
Ring-billed Gull, adult winter
I spent a bit of time with the Common Gulls
Black-headed Gull, adult
Black-headed Gull, 1st winter
16.30 hours, the light has failed, time to make decision as for tomorrow ! ! !
Weather forecast for Cork tomorrow is good !
There is a Laughing Gull at Ballycotton Harbour.
20.00 hours, we arrive Travel Lodge, Cork, eat in adjoining Restaurant,
In bed by 22.00 hours.
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I have put up here all the images I took over this superb 3 day Trip.
Check the last 3 images if you are not bored by then ! ! !
Laughing Gull and Ring-billed Gull will be in next post
Herring Gull 1st winter
Pied Wagtail
Moorhen
Lesser Black-backed Gull, adult winter
Rook
Grey Heron
Hooded Crow
Some ''crazy dude'' over there, getting down low, to a Black-headed Gull
Intense photography ! ''eye to eye stuff''
''bang to rights''
Looks like you had a good time there Richard, you seem to have got over the U.A.E.
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