Monday 15 August 2016

CASPIAN GULL, juvenile, Dungeness, 14/8/2016

Dungeness, by the fishing boats, 15.00 hours - 18.30 hours, 14/8/2016

Within 20 minutes of our arrival, Mick Southcott picks out this stunning Caspian as it flew in to settle with the Gulls on the beach !

MC and DW joined us,
the Caspian stayed all afternoon giving superb photo opportunities.


Caspian Gull, juvenile





























Saturday 13 August 2016

GBBG, juvenile, Black ring: JU082, Dungeness, 13/8/2016

Dungeness, by the fishing boats, 15.00 hours - 18.30 hours


Great Black-backed Gull, juvenile, Black ring: JU082
ringed as a chick 44 days ago, 892 km away in SW Norway. (RB)




Lesser Black-backed Gull, juvenile


Yellow-legged Gull


Herring Gull, juvenile




Great Black-backed Gull, 2nd c, Black ring: JC046




Lesser Black-backed Gull



Yellow-legged Gull






Monday 8 August 2016

Dungeness, 6th, 7th August, 2016

Dungeness, by the fishing boats,
Saturday, 6th August, 15.30 - 19.30 hours.


Yellow-legged Gull






Herring Gull

Turnstone




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Sunday, 7th August, 15.30 - 19.00 hours.



Yellow- legged Gull, adult





Yellow-legged Gull






Great Black-backed Gull, juvenile









Friday 5 August 2016

Ebro Delta, Spain, Audouin's Gull juvenile and Mediterranean Gull juvenile, 30th, 31st July and 1st August 2016

3 day trip to the Ebro Delta, Spain, 30th, 31st July and 1st August 2016



3 mornings at Punta de la Banya, gave very few photo opportunities, the light not good with only an hour slot each morning before the windsurfers, campervans and beach goers arrived to finish the morning session.



Audouin's Gull, juvenile



















Audouin's Gull, adult





Slender-billed Gull, adult



Mediterranean Gull, juvenile,






In the rice fields:

Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Night Heron, Squacco Heron 
Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret
Glossy Ibis

Lots of Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, and a few Wood Sandpiper
on the banks of the irrigation channels

Black-winged Stilt, Whiskered Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Common Term

again, very few photo opportunities


Squacco Heron 



Purple Heron 






Late afternoons at Port d'Illa de Mar

Great Reed Warbler, (seen 2 days)
Greenshank, Redshank, Kentish Plover





2 (only) Audouin's Gull adults permanently occupying ''the posts'' gave plenty of opportunity for practice on

'Gulls on Posts images'







Little Egret